Schools were closed in Delta, not because of temperature or lack thereof, but because of Zamboni ice conditions on the road.
I’m just off the Parks Hiway 11 miles north of Wasilla but just before the Big Lake turnoff, my house sits on 8 acres and has a creek at the lower end, its usually around 5-10 degrees colder at my house than the local area because I sit low lying.
We had the Mythbusters and Dirty Jobs here last week doing an Alaska special, the dumbnuts were working myths of moose like whether to speed up and pass or slow down etc. I would have suggested they used the mannequin with the male appendage(tubing) to test the far north myth that in Arctic conditions like temps below -60 by the time your urine hits the ground or just your spit it becomes frozen.