Good morning! Quite a few of you awoke to the arctic blast that was sitting on top of Alaska for the last three weeks, and are facing dangerous wind chills. If I may: dress in layers, and avoid cotton clothing. Alaskans have a saying: "Cotton kills; wear wool."
We have 30 degrees and light to moderate rain, which is freezing on contact with the roads. Having been below zero for such a long period, the ground is well-frozen.
So now the streets and highway (we only have the one) are ice-covered, all the schools in these two boroughs - comprising almost 22,000 square miles - are closed. The State troopers and local police are advising people to stay off the roads if possible.
That's nice, but as usual, the employers are the sticking point: they have an unreasonable expectation that people will show up for work! Oh, well ... many are going to be a bit late, today, Mr. Employer. Deal with it.
Stay warm & out of the wind, if you can. We have warmer air than we like, so we'll send it on down to you, too. It make take a few days ...
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
2 comments:
Thanks for the cold air! today's "high" was 12 degrees at 0002 hours. It roller coastered down to 1 at 0800 and "skyrocketed to 10 degrees just before the sun disappeared over the western hills. Tonight, Thursday, Thursday night, and Friday and Friday night should make today seem postively balmy. We're talking minus 10 for a low and maybe 5 or 6 for a high. Factor in wind chill and it'll be minus 25 or so.
Could be worse. The Adirondacks of NY are looking at minus 30 to 35 before the wind chill is taken into account.
I know that doesn't sound like much to folks out in Fargo...or Anchorage or Whitehorse...but it's darn cold for around here.
Just for the record, -30 is cold here, too!
If I could, I'd send you these warm temps that are messing up everything here (pools of black water on the roads, windows & headlights covered with road grime in seconds, pipes bursting as they thaw out, leaks developing as the snow mass on rooftops begins to melt).
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