The Great North Deep Freeze

December 5, 2005, 12:18 pm
Posted by J.B. Elliott in Winter Weather
Rating: 2/5   Votes : 1
The coldest weather so far this season in the Great North Cold Country, especially this morning. Within the last day or so, the official low at Beaver, Alaska bottomed out at 53 below zero!

Here are some selected lows early today:

51 below zero at Chandalar Lake, Alaska
51 below in the North Yukon Territory of NW Canada
47 below at Fort Yukon, Alaska
45 below at Arctic Village, Alaska
40 below at Deadhorse, Alaska
16 below at Lostwood, North Dakota (another intriguing name)
19 below at Williston, North Dakota

As the temperature hovered around 40 below today at Deadhorse, Alaska, the wind chill index dropped as low as 65 below zero.

I have a lot of cold-natured friends that could not take that more than 30 seconds even if dressed for the occasion!
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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 12:43 pm
Sounds like good swimming weather............... if you have a heated indoor pool!!!!

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 12:46 pm
I couldn't stand to even think about it for 30 seconds, much less be out in it!

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:01 pm
sounds like you'd freeze into a popsicle the minute you walked out in it. not me....

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:01 pm
It's sort of scary to think about... brrrr!!

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:05 pm
That is cold I have to wonder if some of that will come down here sometime. Now Stephanie I thought you like the cold temps HAHAHA.

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:06 pm
I got a friend who lives in Eagle River, Alaska and he says they can fly their plans in the winter as long as it does not go below -50 degrees F.

He reported this past weekend temps of -20 to 0 degrees in the Denali Area.

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:20 pm
i like cold... but thats too cold for me :-)

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:30 pm
Come on Stephanie it is only as cold as you let your mind tell you that it isHAHAHAHA. Now we have not herd from our good buddy Rusty that much. Come on Rusty tell us what the 12Z runs say about the rest of the week.

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Posted by AC  
on December 5, 2005, 1:45 pm
BRRRR.....I think that covers it!!

AC

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:48 pm
AC you said it.

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 1:56 pm
ok michael, lets see YOU get out there in that cold. in your suspenders. and bright red, sparkly boots. i will even throw in a santa claus hat and YOU can do the snow dance. of course he will probably (POOF!!) turn into a snowman HA HA HA :-)

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 2:13 pm
Ok I will do the snow dance just bring what I need and I will do it, be sure and bring a video camera so we can record it to send to James Spann HAHAHA. As long as I have a big coat on the cold won't bother me to bad.

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 2:30 pm
Hey it looks like the sun might being trying to come out, but I don't think it warm up a lot.

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 2:53 pm
Looks like I need to ask for suspenders for Christmas! They seem to be gaining in popularity!

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 4:03 pm
sorry, missed out on the 12 z , I figured Id let James handle this one... HAHAH Ill pick up on the 18z run this evening...

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Posted by  
on December 5, 2005, 4:28 pm
Ok Rusty I will let you off the hook this time but next time I am going to tell James HAHAHAHA. I think the weather get's wild next week it is going to be fun to look at, Now let's get threw this storm on Wednesday night/ Thursday, going to be fun to look at.

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