Posted on 01/22/2012 4:23:02 PM PST by 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.
As a person who lives in Tampa, that looks really really cold.
I sure hope those two trucks are running, or they’ll never get them started again.
1. Looks like the town in the scifi horror movie “30 Days of Night”
2. Looks like the place I want to send every Democratic politician.
3. Do they deliver HOT pizza there?
4. Who, in their right mind, would want to live there (other than military operations sites)?
I love that picture. It looks strangely calm and serene. And cold.... I can’t forget COLD. Thanks, Signalman!
Or Clearwater
It got down to -30 in DeKalb Illinois (west of Chicago) about 30 years ago when I was in college. It was so cold out it was difficult to breathe. With the wind, I think they reported that it got down to -65 degrees. It’s something everyone should experience.
We get minus 15 and 20 a bit this time of year. Last night minus 5. Yet it is nighttime when we get it.. and mind you is is a whole new meaning of COLD!!!!
Those houses look a little drafty, though.
Is that light dusk or moonlight? I notice that the streetlight looks pretty bright in comparison, so it must be darker than the photo suggests.
-29 is not that bad for January. Fairbanks, when I lived there, had the high temp not reach -43 for three weeks and dipped to -56. Fairbanksans were good with it. At least it wasn’t -75 like it was in 1997.
I was going to post a cam from Clearwater, but they are all dark.
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Even if they can start them, the tires will be frozen to the ground/ice and they won’t move.
Interesting! Thanks for posting.
I remember that. Heck it wasn’t just one day either. It was a few days in the negative double digits and then a few more days again.
It’s 3:22 in that afternoon. Broad daylight...
That pesky Global Warming is making the Arctic sea ice at historical record levels this season.
We need to raise gas prices to $5 a gallon so that the sacred polar bears can freeze to death.
My father took a picture of our thermometer at -35 about that time. In mid Missouri. But you know, I don’t even remember the cold so much. I had a blast sliding on the ice in our creek while waiting for the school bus.
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