Alert The Goracle! Coldest Start To Winter In AK in 16 Years
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I have been to Alaska at least a half dozen times doing ALPATs (Coast Guard-speak for Alaskan Patrols) and most of us had a saying that went like this: “Once I’m out, you couldn’t pay me to go back to Alaska.”
It’s freakin’ cold up there. Al Goracle would have you believe it is not.
But it is…this from NOAA:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK
145 AM AKDT MON OCT 6 2008
…UNSEASONABLY COLD WEATHER CONTINUES AT FAIRBANKS…
THE HIGH TEMPERATURE YESTERDAY AT THE FAIRBANKS INTERNATIONAL
AIRPORT WAS 31 DEGREES. THIS WAS THE FIRST TIME THIS FALL THAT THE
HIGH TEMPERATURE FAILED TO REACH THE FREEZING MARK. ON AVERAGE THE
DATE OF THE FIRST DAY WITH A HIGH TEMPERATURE BELOW FREEZING IS
OCTOBER 11TH. SO FAR THIS MONTH THE WARMEST TEMPERATURE OF 38
DEGREES WAS OBSERVED ON THE 2ND.
THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE SO FAR THIS MONTH OF 27.1 DEGREES IS 8.2
DEGREES BELOW THE 30-YEAR AVERAGE. IT HAS BEEN THE COLDEST FIRST 5
DAYS OF THE MONTH OF OCTOBER SINCE 1992.
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