Editing Rankin Inlet (section)

===Climate===
Rankin Inlet has a [[subarctic climate]] ([[Köppen climate classification|Köppen]]: ''Dfc''; [[Trewartha climate classification|Trewartha]]: ''Ecld''), just short of a [[tundra]] climate. It is above the [[tree line]]. Temperatures stay below freezing from late September to early June. Although the climate is [[subarctic]], temperatures rise and fall too rapidly and do not stay above {{cvt|10|C}} for long enough (30&nbsp;days) for trees to grow. Under the alternate formula for determining the boundary between Arctic and subarctic climates posited by [[Otto Nordenskjöld]], however, Rankin Inlet, along with [[Arviat]] and [[Baker Lake, Nunavut|Baker Lake]], qualify as Arctic based on the relationship between the temperatures of the coldest and warmest months; in the case of Rankin Inlet, with a coldest-month (January) mean of {{cvt|-30.1|C|}}, said boundary for the warmest month would be {{cvt|12.0|C}} using the Nordenskjöld formula and Rankin Inlet's warmest month (July) averages only {{cvt|10.9|C}}.

Beginning on 16 January 2008, Rankin Inlet endured the longest recorded [[blizzard]] in Canada.{{efn|[[Environment and Climate Change Canada]] defines a blizzard above the tree line as a snowstorm with sustained wind speed above {{cvt|40|km/h}}, visibility {{cvt|400|m}} or under and conditions will last for at least six hours.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ec.gc.ca/meteo-weather/default.asp?lang=En&n=D9553AB5-1#blizzard |title= Blizzard Table 2. Alerting parameters Environment Canada uses for issuing a Blizzard Warning|access-date=12 January 2023|date=29 October 2020}}</ref>}} Wind speed was {{cvt|74|km/h}} or above, with gusts to {{cvt|90|km/h}}, and [[wind chill]] values were as low as {{cvt|&minus;58|C|}}. This blizzard lasted 7&nbsp;days 5&nbsp;hours.<ref>{{cite journal|journal=[[Up Here (magazine)|up here]]|title=Home of the blizzard|date=Oct–Nov 2008|access-date=17 September 2011|url=http://uphere.ca/node/294 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110901000548/http://uphere.ca/node/294 |archive-date=1 September 2011}}</ref>

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