Posted on 12/17/2011 8:43:00 AM PST by Signalman
Photo taken 7:26AM AK Time, (about 5 minutes ago) of downtown Barrow, Alaska. It's -15F.
Picture updates every few minutes.
Shopping in Barrow.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FgZZ8Wkwkc&feature=related
Looks like prices are about triple what you would pay in the lower 48.
I remember when Will Rogers and Wiley Post died in ‘35. It was a sad day in Oklahoma.
I was in -15 once in St Paul and once in Hartford. It feels actually life threatening. I can’t imagine -55
my favorite site webcam!
http://www.evk2cnr.org/WebCams/PyramidOne/everest-webcam.html
I’ve been working in Prudoe Bay when it was -46ºf with a 55 mph sustained wind. IIRC, wind chill was somewhere around -100...
When it has been -20º and -30º then goes to -10º it really does feel warmer.
Yes it is a heat wave...weird weather...I’m in central BC and it was just barely freezing this morning with light snow...warmed up later in morning to 33 and mixed rain and snow. I don’t like it!!
So, on that day, my brother-in-law will very likely be up before sunrise.
Barely.
And only on that day.
I remember back in the 40’s (1940’s) my dad would put a blanket over the engine when it got really cold...(Michigan)
I’m looking at a map and wondering what body of water that is out there. There is Chukchi Sea, the Beaufort Sea, East Siberian Sea and the Arctic Ocean. I am confused.
Water lines are protected by burying them 4 foot deep, insulating them and putting a heat tape cord in the pipe or between the pipe and the insulation to inject around 5 watts a foot. Other wise your sewer freezes in the dead of winter.
Yes, you can swin in the arctic ocean; there’s even a club called the ‘polar bear’s’ If you go by Pepe’s mexican food you can say HI to Fran and get your certificate.
http://www.yelp.com/biz/pepes-north-of-the-border-barrow
I once lived in Atqasuk, about 60 miles south of Barrow on the Meade River.
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