December 31, 2008
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Weather
-24°FCurrent:Clear
Wind: E at 0 mph
Humidity: 57%Today-8° | 6° Thu-9° | -1° Fri
-11° | 3° Sat-6° | 1°
-21°FCurrent:Clear
Wind: E at 4 mph
Humidity: 77%Today-12° | 4° Thu-10° | 1° Fri-14° | 6° Sat-12° | 7°
-32°FCurrent:Clear
Wind: N at 0 mph
Humidity: 74%Today-22° | -4° Thu-25° | -5° Fri
-18° | -5° Sat-25° | -9° This is what Google says we can expect into the weekend. The radio tells me that Anchorage is warming up. I’m about halfway between Willow and Talkeetna, and, as usual, don’t know what’s coming next. I predict the weather by looking at the sky, and I’ll be damned if I’m going out there at minus thirty to confirm that it’s damned cold. My thermometer a few minutes ago was reading -33.3 outside and 44.4 inside. …interesting pattern, eh?
Back soon. This post is a test — seeing if my copy-and-paste job works.
Comments (9)
a friend is headed to Anchorage with a fancy 3 button coat. I told her she needed more underneath. And possibly a stop to buy a Parka! What can I say she is from Virgina with love in her eyes for a fellow up that way. OH that internet!
Wow. You’d probably be wearing shorts here in Tucson. To me, 50 degrees is cold.
@Shahrazad1973 - I know… when Greyfox and I were honeymooning in SW New Mexico, we’d see people wearing parkas at 50° while we were in t-shirts. When my son and I spent a winter traveling around the 4-corners, we had park rangers checking up on us at night because we were tent camping at temperatures in the thirties, places like Cochiti Lake and El Malpais. They have a saying here: there’s no such thing as bad weather, only inadequate gear.
@Ikwa - Oh no! She is in for a chilling enlightenment. Anchorage right now is having its coldest days in a decade or so. Ah, well, love knows no season.
@SuSu - maybe she knows what she is doing after all LOL he will be forced to keep her warm. hehe! I told her to keep her digits and toes warm and dry! You stay warm too.
Wow!!! We’d be downright balmy for you…64 degrees! (I am down south of New Orleans.) I have no doubt that I would freeze to death in your neck of the woods. I lived in KY while in college and I thought it got too cold up there
@Monique - I was a California girl. My first summer in Alaska felt like the coldest winter I’d ever known. Acclimatization, the adaptability of mammalian bodies, is a wonderful thing.
Fun reading the weather comments.
We do indeed adapt. After growing up in Iowa, I remember the first summer I spent in Alabama taking in lots of movies in air-conditioning, walking from shade spot to shade spot and thinking I was going to melt into the ground.
When I’d go to Iowa to visit, I’d be borrowing sweaters from folks while they were perspiring heavily and fanning.
We’re expecting a foot of snow tonight and tomorrow……..
@spinksy - Keep snug and safe. We will probably get snow when the weather warms up here.