Barrow Sea Ice Web Cam (-29F in America's most northern town)

seaice.alaska.edu ^ | 1/22/2012 | Geophysical institute

[Signalman]

Photo of downtown Barrow, AK taken 3:02PM Alaska Time (about 6 minutes ago). Photo updates about every 5 minutes. Camera looks north. Area north of the main road is the Bering Sea, frozen over. Current temp. -29F.

[null and void]

I've been putting this sticker on gas pumps:

"Somehow we have to figure
out how to boost the price of
gasoline to the [$8-$10/gal]
levels in Europe." - Barrack Obama's
Energy Secretary Steve Chu. Had enough yet???

I've sized mine to fit twelve to a sheet of bumper sticker stock...

[Eye of Unk]

As a person who lives a couple hundred miles south of there its normal,its a dry cold.

Last week I had -30F.

[El Laton Caliente]

I’ve worked most of the last three years in Prudoe Bay, east and slightly south of Barrow. I was up there winter before last when it was -46º with a 55 mph sustained wind. The wind chill was around -110º.

The trucks have to be towed into a heated building to get them restarted if they die or run out of fuel.

They DO NOT freeze to the ground, the ground has been frozen for MONTHS and it is not thawing out until May or so...

[driftdiver]

As long as the block heater is on they will start easily enough. The only time I ever had a car frozen to the ground was after an ice storm.

Then I only lived in northern Iowa.

[Bernard Marx]

We get minus 15 and 20 a bit this time of year.

I remember delivering newspapers as a kid in daytime temps of minus 15 F. in Idaho Falls, ID. We got some really bad winters back then. In Havre, MT where a friend grew up, minus 40 was considered to be great ice-skating weather if the sun was shining.

[omega4179]

My cars in NH started fine at -10

[omega4179]

The Arctic will melt completely in five years. Al Gore 2009

[coloradan]

It’s just after winter solstice ... no daylight for a while.

[Disambiguator]

4. Who, in their right mind, would want to live there (other than military operations sites)?

The crime rate is probably pretty low. No flash mobs in the convenience stores.

[Red_Devil 232]

BkMk

[HereInTheHeartland]

I bet no homeless people sleeping on park benches.

[animal172]

Is that the town where the “wheel barrow” was invented?

[The Great RJ]

Gee, according to Al Gore the Arctic should be ice free with nothing but the carcasses of drowned polar bears drifting to shore.

[6SJ7]

-143° !!! I do hope that is a photoshop. Absolute zero is -459°. Just another 316 degrees to go until all quantum activity ceases.

[El Laton Caliente]

My quarters building in Prudhoe Bay: The office: The pipeline bothers the wildlife LOL:

[Waverunner]

83 degrees in Fort Myers today

[MuttTheHoople]

Who’s up for a swim?

[Vermont Lt]

Just curious...you feel it’s ok to deface someone’s property with that sticker. The owner now has to pay someone to scrape your junk off his pumps. I notice you don’t put your name and phone number on it.

[Tucker39]

Clearwater and Clearwater Beach are 2 of my faves.

Back in the 80s when snowmobiling out of W. Yellowstone, MT it was -37F in the morning when we hit the trail down to Idaho Springs, ID. That’s where Clark’s Fork of the Missouri River comes out of the ground in humongous springs......and you can see the trout lying in there in rows, looking like battleships in a scene from a WWII movie.

[The Toad]

I remember driving for about an hour the next day. The car never warmed up—cold air coming out of the vents. The tires were like rocks....