alaska lows tonight -50 to -65F: winter is here, just bottled up in the far north. Hope it doesnt

[msongs]

come soon to those of you enjoying your early spring. budding plants will not like it at all

[Elwood P Dowd]

1. Fairbanks is almost 100 degrees colder than Reykjavik, Iceland tonight.

That is nasty!

[Blue_In_AK]

5. In the last couple of days,

there have been 100-degree differentials in temperature just here in the state -- 37 down in the Panhandle and and -60 up in the Interior.

[quinnox]

2. wowsers, that would be beyond coping to me

I can't stand it when it gets really cold, and can't imagine ever being in that kind of temperature. The coldest I have ever been in was around zero degrees and that was freezing cooooooooollllllllllllllllllllllddddddddddd.

[Arctic Dave]

3. It was -51 ambient last week with -83 windchill.

Warmed up to -35 today but the wind is howling. Brrrrrr fricking hrrrrrr.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. Hey, Dave, have you seen those videos of people in Fairbanks

tossing a cup of hot water into the air and having it immediately vaporize? It's amazing.

It's pretty chilly down here, maybe -8, but it's tolerable.

[Arctic Dave]

8. When I walked to my truck with a cup of

coffee it looked like it was boiling from all the vapor.

[Agony]

16. Don't get lost in the ice fog, Dave!

or forget to plug your truck in...

Cheers!
Agony

[Blue_In_AK]

4. We've had a really extreme winter this year.

Record-breaking snow totals earlier (about twice as much as normal here in Anchorage) and now record-breaking cold, not to mention the hurricane they had out west in November. http://www.usatoday.com/weather/storms/story/2011-11-09/alaska-storm/51134540/1 The average temperature here this month has been 2.7 degrees. Normal low and high averages are 9 degrees to 22 dgrees. We're supposed to get a little break tomorrow, some more snow. !! Like 90+ inches isn't enough.

Here's a shot of Ship Creek in Anchorage earlier today.

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[onethatcares]

7. I haven't seen that bridge for over 30 years

it's at the bottom of government hill and before the climb to 4th Street, isn't it?

I got frostbite on my hands when it was 40 below and I had to change a starter on my car, I couldn't do it with gloves on.

I could not even begin to imagine 90 inches of snow though.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Yes, that's where it is,

Do you remember how some winters the ducks would stay at the open water at the foot of that little dam? This year it's completely frozen, and there's not a duck to be seen.

[onethatcares]

13. no, sorry I don't remember the ducks, but

my wife used to work at McCrorys on Fourth St and I remember the plug ins at the parking lots. Jeez, that was a long, long time ago.

I remember Portage Glacier actually being a glacier, some of the pics I've seen lately show it's receded quite a bit.

That is some beautiful country from Anchorage to Homer and from Anchorage to Fairbanks. What I remember of the entire place was way before new civilization hit. I understand there are homes on the side of the Chugach Mts now, I flabbergasted.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Yes, there are homes up there now,

but only on the south side since the bases and Chugach State Park take up the more northerly hillsides. I personally wouldn't want to live up there because they get terrible winds -- several times this winter they've exceeded 100 mph -- and, of course, the snow is deeper up there. We're quite comfortable over here in the Turnagain/Spenard area, only about five minutes from everything.

[Bandit]

10. I feel for you guys up there...LOL

It is 29 degrees down here and that is too damn cold...I like our normal rainy weather. We don't have to shovel it.....Most of our cars here don't even have block heaters....Don't need them.

[BumRushDaShow]

9. After 2 record-breaking winters in a row here

in Philly, Alaska can keep it! I am enjoying the break, but mindful that we still have to get through February and March. .

[hedgehog]

12. My husband was commenting to me yesterday that the cold weather

is bottled up way up North; now I know what he was talking about. I figure we're due for at least one passing swipe. When that cold wind crosses Lake Erie and Lake Ontario (Both at record high temperatures), I expect a four foot overnight storm!

[MadHound]

14. We need cold weather here in the midwest, ASAP

Otherwise crop production will be down. Not to mention we need some serious snow to make up for last year's drought. Uncork that bottle and share some winter with the rest of us.