Snag, Yukon
Snag is a former village in Yukon, Canada, located on a small, dry-weather sideroad off the Alaska Highway, east of Beaver Creek. The village of Snag was located in a bowl-shaped valley of the White River and its tributaries, including Snag Creek. It was first settled during the Klondike Gold Rush. A village of Indigenous peoples was also located approximately away. It was the site of a military airfield, established as part of the Northwest Staging Route, which closed in 1968. In 1947, the village of Snag had a population of eight to ten First Nations people and fur traders. An additional staff of fifteen to twenty airport personnel — meteorologists, radio operators, aircraft maintenance men — lived at the airport barracks.
Climate
Snag has a subarctic climate with mild summers and severely cold and long winters.On February 2, 1947, Snag recorded a temperature of, beating the continental North American record-low temperature that until then, belonged to Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, when it reached on December 31, 1910. The next day, on February 3, 1947, the record was beaten again in Snag;. There was a clear sky, and little to no wind. There were of snow on the ground, but the level had been in decline. According to weather observer Wilf Blezard, the voices of humans and dogs at the village could be heard from the local airport, four miles away; furthermore, people could see and hear their own breath solidifying.
Another town northeast of Snag, Fort Selkirk, claimed an even lower temperature of, but the claim could not be confirmed.