Posted on 01/27/2006 9:54:49 AM PST by quantim
If the next four days are as unrelentingly cold as the past week, January 2006 may claim the bronze--third place overall--as the coldest month on record since 1971, reports the scientific crew over at the National Weather Service Fairbanks station.
As of the 25th of this month, the average temperature has been 19.2 degrees below zero. With no relief in sight, January 2006 will rate at least the fifth coldest month in the past 35 years.
Non-scientific souls may gauge record low temperature lows by the thickness of the ice fog or the performance of their vehicle, when it lurches, stalls or just plain won't start.
But Weather Service meteorologists not only monitor and forecast the weather, but average out record cold temperatures based on more than a century of Fairbanks weather data--102 years to be exact.
The average January temperature for all those years works out to 10.1 below zero; the average high is 1.6 below and the average low is 18.5 below.
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A balmy 50º F here in NW Florida this morning at 0600 with a high over 60º F. I knew there was a reason I lived here....
He had a stopover there on his way to Hawaii to see the first snow there in years and then landed in Davos for the coldest european winter on record.
Nation's Snowmen March against Global Warming!
More @ http://www.theonion.com/content/node/44676
GLOBAL WARMING WILL BRING THE NEXT ICE AGE!!!!!!!
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We visited Sweden last summer and were told that they had had a record cold winter. Of course, news like this is just not "fit to print".
Must be that Global Warming causing this.
IT'S ALL GLOBAL WARMING!!!
Wait a second....
Here in the Southern Interior of British Columbia it has been mild. I live in the district between Okanagan and Kootney Region. It has been extremely foggy here for most of the winter. Most unusual. We usually get the fog in the fall. Never in the winter. It is hovering a few degrees below freezing. Not to much for snow. A foot maybe. And all of that falling last weekend. It is just plain damp and dreary. I hate fog. But I also live in a valley with one small town and 3 large creeks. Makes for fog. Just not this time of year. Odd.
Two inches of snow last evening in Moscow, Idaho. I blame Global Warming.
-51 degrees at the Fairbanks Airport today.
It was a balmy -40 on post (Ft. Wainwright today).
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51 below. Not a cold snap, this has been settling in for a couple weeks. School is optional. Ice fog out here, 4 miles from town. Visibility zero in town. Don't take the vehicle out today if it having any problems. Wear your full Arctic gear and be prepared to walk when the vehicle craps out.
Two feet of snow in Lecco, north of Milan, Italy. Trains stalled in Florence. Rush hour commuters delayed. Got the photos 10 minutes ago. Still snowing as of now. It's a winter globo warming land. Sure.
Sometimes it's just too easy to anticipate what the left will say next.
What is ice fog? Are you from Fairbanks?
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