{"id":823416,"date":"2026-07-24T16:31:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:31:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823416\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T16:31:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T16:31:10","slug":"environment-canada-warns-of-heavy-rain-snow-around-sahtu-region-and-paulatuk-over-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/823416\/","title":{"rendered":"Environment Canada warns of heavy rain, snow around Sahtu region and Paulatuk over weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Paulatuk Mayor Ray Ruben Sr. says people in his community have come to expect unpredictable weather.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Environment Canada has issued rainfall warnings for Paulatuk, along with Tul\u0131\u0301t’a, Norman Wells, Fort Good Hope and Colville Lake, starting Friday and continuing over the weekend. <\/p>\n

The Environment Canada warning states that some areas may see as much as 100 millimetres of rain \u2014 more than double a typical rainfall over the entire month of July.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ruben said they\u2019ve already had to call off a summer camp and are talking with researchers in the community about pausing their work on the lake and on the land.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"ManMayor Raymond Ruben in Paulatuk, N.W.T., in November 2025. (Liny Lamberink\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Environment Canada is also warning rain could turn to snow Friday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ruben said this weather is unusual for July, which is usually warm and dry, but it\u2019s not unheard of.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI can remember talking about experiencing four different types of weather in the month of July, including snow,\u201d he said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s something we come to expect as the weather\u2019s become so unpredictable now.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fort Good Hope, Norman Wells, Tul\u0131\u0301t’a and Colville Lake could also see the heavy rain turn to snow.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Environment Canada warning states that some flooding is likely and some roads may become impassable.<\/p>\n

It recommends avoiding non-essential travel, staying away from low-lying areas as well as creeks, rivers and culverts.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":823417,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44],"class_list":["post-823416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=823416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/823416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/823417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=823416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=823416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=823416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}