- Alaska is covered in ice & snow year-round (no, it's not, unless you live above 10,000 feet)
- We all have pet moose/polar bears/grizzlies (again, no. D'oh!)
- We fill our tanks from the Alaska Pipeline (no, that's oil ... we'll talk about "refining" some other time)
- Alaskans still live in igloos ( ... sigh ...no, we don't. Some of the shacks in the Bush are pretty poor, but they don't melt come summertime, either)
An "average" is just a number. In the last eight years, it's gotten as warm as 84 degrees in July or August a couple of times. And January usually includes a cold spell with overnight lows going well below -20 ... that snap may last for four days, or three weeks ... and I've seen -27 just in the last couple of years.
So here, for your viewing pleasure, is a handy reference from The Weather Channel.
| Month |  | Avg. High | | Avg. Low | | Precip. | | Record High | | Record Low | ||
| Jan | | 21°F | | 7°F | | | 0.70 in. | | 49°F (1977) | | -39°F (1975) | |
| Feb | | 25°F | | 9°F | | | 0.76 in. | | 51°F (1968) | | -28°F (1993) | |
| Mar | | 33°F | | 16°F | | | 0.60 in. | | 56°F (1995) | | -23°F (1971) | |
| Apr | | 44°F | | 29°F | | | 0.42 in. | | 65°F (1976) | | -3°F (1971) | |
| May | | 55°F | | 39°F | | | 0.60 in. | | 77°F (1993) | | 17°F (1964) | |
| Jun | | 62°F | | 48°F | | | 1.05 in. | | 86°F (1969) | | 34°F (1951) | |
| Jul | | 65°F | | 52°F | | | 1.80 in. | | 86°F (1993) | | 40°F (1956) | |
| Aug | | 64°F | | 50°F | | | 2.59 in. | | 82°F (1968) | | 32°F (1987) | |
| Sep | | 55°F | | 42°F | | | 2.70 in. | | 74°F (1957) | | -3°F (1971) | |
| Oct | | 39°F | | 28°F | | | 1.96 in. | | 63°F (1966) | | -11°F (1996) | |
| Nov | | 27°F | | 14°F | | | 1.01 in. | | 55°F (1979) | | -23°F (1994) | |
| Dec | | 22°F | | 10°F | | | 1.10 in. | | 53°F (1967) | | -34°F (1961) |
4 comments:
When my Dad moved us to Az. in the 50's, we'd get letters from 'back East' asking us how we dealt with the Indian problem - as if they were robbing stagecoaches, or something!
No, stagecoaches were robbed by bandits. INDIANS burn cabins, attack wagon trains and carry off the women-folk.
Sheesh. You'd think those people had never seen a Western!
Back in the dark ages when I was growing up in the Detroit area, Sonny Eliot would broadcast the winter Anchorage forecasts along with the Detroit ones. More often than not, Detroit's winter weather was worse.
Note I don't discuss Fairbanks...
Q
And, when I lived in New Jersey, I met few people who speak (or act) like those creatures on Jersey Shore. (Who, BTW are actually New Yorkers!)
As for gangsters...well there were the mayors of Linden, Parsippany and Dover who were reported to have connections.
Funny how stereotypes abound whether they be people or regions.
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