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Ned Rozell
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Feb. 1, 2024
Moments after I bashed some sheet rock with a hammer to expose my home色视频下载檚 water pipes to warmer air, I logged in to see another Special Weather Statement.
A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks wrote: 色视频下载淎fter a brief 色视频下载榳arm-up色视频下载 from the bitterly cold temperatures recently, another prolonged cold-snap will return to the Interior.
色视频下载淰alley locations will fall back to -40 F to -50 F . . . for overnight lows, with high temps struggling to warm much beyond -30 F.
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My friend Chris Swingley confirmed that this cold, though breathtaking, was not the most extreme he has recorded at his home on Goldstream Creek in Fairbanks. Readings on his thermometer are usually the coldest on a network of Fairbanks temperatures he compiles on his website. As I write this, Chris色视频下载檚 home is at minus 49.1 degrees Fahrenheit.
He recorded a minus 52 a few days ago, falling just short of the minus 53.3 of Jan. 29, 2012.
色视频下载淟ast week色视频下载檚 cold snap was the second-coldest since we moved here more than 15 years ago,色视频下载 he wrote in an email.
Even though no records have yet fallen, it seemed chilly as I watched willow twigs shatter within the mouths of a mother and yearling calf moose outside our window at home.
And as ravens perched on metal light poles chilled to minus 40 with bare feet (accomplished with their adaptation of 色视频下载渃ountercurrent heat exchange,色视频下载 in which blood vessels going to and from their feet allows blood flowing down to their feet to warm the blood coming back to their hearts).
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Where does this cold air come from, in this time when our planet seems to be in an extreme warming phase?
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Deep cold air is sort of reassuring in this place that has always featured it. At the same time, it is exhausting to keep our machines and homes functioning.
Complain as we might when that car door won色视频下载檛 shut, for reasons that might be hard to remember many of us have chosen to live here. It is a place very far from the Equator, where the planet nods so away from the sun that 色视频下载 makes its own cold.
Since the late 1970s, the University of 色视频下载 Fairbanks' Geophysical Institute has provided this column free in cooperation with the UAF research community. Ned Rozell ned.rozell@alaska.edu is a science writer for the Geophysical Institute.