What is the closest city to you? That doesn't look like an Anchorage temperature... How much sun are you getting right now?


My house is about 10 miles outside of Fairbanks (second largest city in the state.) We are up to 5 hours 42 minutes of daylight today, a gain of six minutes over yesterday.

At the time my thermometer said 40 below zero, it was 20 degrees colder than that down in the flats by the river -- the chief engineer at the radio station where I work showed 64 below zero this morning. I have been out in temperatures colder than minus 70.

Don't believe for a minute the people who tell you that once you get colder than 40 below zero it's all the same, just cold. The difference between -40 and -50 is quite noticeable, and at -60 it's like living in a different world -- everything is so quiet and intense at the same time. It's truly amazing.

tanstaafl.