[Monkey Face]

Yoiks!

My mother used to live in Brainard, and she said it often got colder there than it did in Alaska...a place she spent probably 30 years.

*shudder*

[Dead Corpse]

Yep. It's true. A lot of Alaska is kept comparatively "warm" by those off shore breezes. A lot of the North slope gets it straight off the Polar ice though.

Same thing with some of the Northern areas of MN. Nothing between Brainard or International Falls and the North Pole but a stray Polar Bear.