“There are lots of things that we have noticed such as there are hardly any clear skies now. There are clouds, or haze. It is always white out (qaqurnaqtuq) when you can hardly see the ground. We don’t get those clear skies anymore with very good visibility. The traditional word for it is pujurattuq—there is a lot of this now. It is not ihiriaqtuq (smoke from a fire) and there is a lot of that today. Even during clear skies. There is a lot of this [pujurattuq] now even during clear skies. Years ago there would be clear, clear skies and visibility would be very clear. But now there is a lot of this [pujurattuq].”
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