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Location: The Valley Of The Sun just east of Canberra
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Notes:
* Qalliqtut is located on the northern foreshore of a thermal lake (Stor Hund Innsjø, or Big Dog Lake).
* Despite being a thermal lake, it remains frozen from early September-late May. Once the thaw occurs, vast amounts of lake effect snow is produced as the thermal lake produces low pressure systems that sweep across to Qalliqtut.
* Beyond Big Dog Lake is a large chain of mountains which block most warm air in summer. The exception is in July, where the forcing mechanism from summer thunderstorms to the south is strong enough to push warm air over the range. However, this warm air becomes hot and bone dry as it descends the mountains and cannot quite regain its moisture over Big Dog Lake.The flow of warm dry air also disturbs Big Dog Lake's capacity to produce snowfall. Therefore July is completely rainless in Qaliiqtut, despite the warm air.
* Being located at 79N, there is polar night and polar day.
* Sunshine is 100% in July, 0% in June and August (the "snowbelt" months), rising to 100% again either side of the polar night.
* When summer thunderstorms do not materialise south of the range, Qalliqtut experiences eternal winter (the so called "sommer svikt"- fail summer). This is why lows of -80C have been recorded in every month of the year. Sommer Svikt occurs about once every decade.
* Rain has never been recorded, only snow.
* Isbjørnland is a Norwegian colony, though First Nation peoples similar to the Inuit are its main residents.
* Isbjørnland is Norwegian for "Polar Bear Land".
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I don't really like it that much, with the too-cold winters and the too-hot summers, even if summer just lasts one month. However, it isn't all that bad. Better for it to be too cold in winter than too warm in winter, and for certain the extreme amount of snow won't melt. Though I don't like the timing of the snowy months, I imagine that the weather in June and August would be awesome. The snow in August falls at a rate of more than two feet per day, but I imagine some days will feature more and some will feature less. Nevertheless I imagine whiteouts will be quite common. It's all powder, which is the type I like.
In summary, it has decent winters, a great amount of snowfall, the seasonal pattern is way off, and the sunshine distribution is something I don't like. I also don't like the heat spike in summer. So overall I give it a D. It's a pretty bad place overall but with some redeeming characteristics, and would make a great vacation destination in June and August.
Basically, Antarctica with the bizarre inclusion of a July that has NYC temperatures (except of course NYC Julys don't normally have Siberian lows....) E
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