From the Anchorage Daily News website:
It has been so cold for so long in Anchorage that the chill has settled into the bones of daily life.
... $189 ankle-length down Skhoop ski skirts sell briskly. Plumbers who unfreeze pipes and thaw washing machines are too busy to talk.
Meteorologists agree: January is on track to be one of the most frigid months on record in Alaska history, according to the National Weather Service.
The average temperature in Anchorage for January so far is 2.7 degrees. That's chillier even than the legendary winter of 1989, when the Daily News reported a freeze so deep that the Anchorage Police Department couldn't start 21 of their patrol cars one January morning.
7 comments:
Yep, I'd say that is a bit nippy... :-) Stay warm sir!
Where's Al when you need him?
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Old NFO, thanks. The cold snap's playing havoc with our electric bill, but we're okay.
Quizikle, given all the cold & excessive snow, I'm guessing he's living here, now. Heh.
We are really above normal temps here. It was 60+ F. This is wrong.
Even north of Keads it's been a lovely few days. Unfortunately I've not been up to going out to play in it, but I've occasionally cracked the windows to get some fresh air in the house.
I saw -50 in Fairbanks this morning.
I love the article's discussion of indoor recess! "'the bane of every teacher's life and every child's life,' said Denali Montessori principal Ruth Dene."
Had me smiling as I sipped my hot coffee.
Wow. Just, WOW!
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