Changelog

How the Polar Bear Alert Program works, when bears are most around, how to avoid a dangerous encounter, and exactly who to call — drawn from the town's official Safety in Polar Bear Country pamphlet. The alert line is 204-675-2327.

What Churchill's wildlife is doing month by month — belugas in the estuary in summer, polar bears gathering through the autumn — with honest ways to see them and who to call about a bear.

Neighbours share what they last paid for staples like milk, eggs and bread, and the board shows the median of recent reports. No official list tracks Churchill's prices, so this one is kept current by the people who shop here.

A new tool for the deep cold: how cold it actually feels right now in Churchill, and over the next three days, with the hours when exposed skin is at risk. It takes the hourly temperature and wind from the forecast and works out the wind chill using Environment Canada's own formula and risk scale — so a frostbite warning here means the same thing it does on the official scale. It shows when skin can freeze in minutes, and stays honest in the mild months too (right now, no frostbite risk). It isn't an official cold warning — those come from Environment Canada, which it links.

Three tools to start: tonight's aurora outlook (space-weather activity, cloud and the hours of darkness, together), the numbers worth saving from the Polar Bear Alert line down, and a month-by-month guide to belugas, bears and the northern lights.