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Weather Products from Yukon Wildland Fire Management

These products are hosted here to make them accessible to users outside of the Yukon Government network. Please read the disclaimers below
DISCLAIMER:The forecast products on this page are prepared for internal use by the Government of Yukon and may not cover the requirements of other parties. The majority of these products are automated and created with no human intervention. Weather warnings or advisories are not included as part of the forecasts. The Government of Yukon makes no representation and provides no warranty as to the accuracy of its weather forecasts. Any use the recipient chooses to make of the forecasts will be at their sole risk. The "Current Weather" is downloaded from a variety of sources and is subject to data outages beyond Yukon government control.
DISCLAIMER #2:These products are copied daily from an internal site at Yukon Government. They are not checked regularly and may be several days out of date if upload problems occur. It is your responsibility to check the date or timestamp on all products.

About the forecast products Important information about the products on this page

Weather

Check the date and time stamp on all products. The first three links report in either PST or PDT while others may use UTC (Greenwich Mean)

Forecast Products

All forecast products are derived directly from model forecast data with no human error checking. As with all weather model products, trust but verify. If images are out of date, try refrshing your browser.

3-hour text computer-generated text forecasts -

Reference Map: Shows locations of all stations.
Click the @ symbol to see the location in Google Maps
Old Crow Fort McPherson Rock River Eagle Plains Camp
Eagle Plains Fire @ Ogilvie Camp Klondike Camp Antimony Creek @
Klondike Fire Center @ Forty Mile @ Henderson @ Barlow @ Mayo Stewart Crossing @ Willow Creek @
Pelly Farm @ Carmacks @ Drury Creek @ Faro Ross River @ MacMillian Pass Beaver Creek Airport
Beaver Creek Town @ Burwash Haines Junction Fire Centre @ Rainbow @ Blanchard Camp Pleasant Camp Champagne @
Braeburn @ Nursery @ Whitehorse Mount Sima @ Carcross @ Fraser Atlin Jake's Corner @
Quiet Lake @ Teslin Swift River @ Frances Lake Tuchitua @ Hasseleberg @ Tom Creek @
Watson Lake Airport Watson Lake Town Iron Creek @ Elk Mountain @ Fort Liard

XT diagrams

These are specialized plots showing time on the horizontal (x) axis and height on the vertical axis.
They are updated daily at 7am and 12pm.
Old Crow Dawson Mayo Stewart Crossing Faro Ross River
Carmacks Beaver Creek Burwash Haines Jct. Whitehorse Carcross
Teslin Watson Lake Tallyho Mtn Fraser Camp Mt Racine Nadahini
Haines AK Skagway AK Juneau AK

Public Smoke Forecast Products

These products provide automated estimates of particulate concentration (pm2.5) due to forest fire smoke

Legend for the Forecasts in the 3-hour trend forecasts

Column Discription
Temp Air Temperature in °C.
Wind Direction from which the wind is coming (degrees for WLF, cardinal for HPW).
Spd Steady wind speed in km/h.
Gust Wind gusts in km/h.
Sky Ovc=overcast, Bkn=broken, Vrb=variable, Sct=scattered, Clr=clear.
POP6 Probability of precipitation in the following 6 hours.
Pcpn Precipitation amount, water equivalent.
Snow Approximate snow amounts, based on Pcpn and Temp
Vis Visibility, based on precipitation type and intensity
Type Type of weather: R = Rain, S = Snow, Z = freezing precipitation, A = hail, W = showers, T = Thunder.
Intenity of precipitation is indicated by "--" very light, "-" light, " " moderate, and "+" heavy.
F = fog, IF = ice fog, DS=Drifting Snow, BS=Blowing snow.
12hr P Total precipitation for the preceding 9 hours plus the precipitation during the following 3 hours.
R/S ht Approximate boundary between rain and snow


A Google Earth file of active weather stations and links for the White Pass, Skagway and Haines areas. Only stations active during the winter are included. This file was not created by nor is it endorsed by Yukon Wildland Fire Management.
White Pass Winter Weather Resources

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