Monday, June 22

Good morning!

It's cloudy and 47 degrees in Anchorage this morning, with some light sprinkles here & there. Well, maybe "there" but not so much "here". There wasn't enough rain to need to turn on the wipers, although a few spots did appear during the drive to work.

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A couple of pro-Sarah Palin websites sponsored an on-line fundraiser for Gov. Palin's legal expenses, regarding the more-than-a-dozen ethics complaints which have since been dismissed as baseless. Her debts are as much as $600,000 according to some sources; the web-a-thon (for lack of a better term) raised just shy of $116,000, so far. If you're interested in this story, please go to http://www.conservatives4palin.com/. And no, I'm not affiliated in any way with either website or the fundraiser.

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As you know, yesterday was the official beginning of the meteorological summer season. Here in Alaska, that translates to 24 hours of daylight.

In Anchorage, we have approximately 22.5 hours of broad daylight, and 1.5 hours of dusky light in the wee morning hours. In Fairbanks, 300 miles to the north, it doesn't even get dusky. When the sun is out, the solstice is spectacular in the abundance of light.

Yesterday and last night, however, it was very cloudy. We had rather more "dusk" than we'd have preferred. Having said that, I should point out that this 24 hours of usable light lasts for about five weeks, give or take. There will be plenty of sunlight for the next couple of months, so no one's complaining about the clouds.

Well, maybe we are ... just a little. And AccuHunch Weather is guessing the clouds will burn off, later today. Life is good!

Thanks for stopping by!