Fifty below zero in Fairbanks? (North Pole, Tok: stations, best, areas)

[fairbanks101]

Originally Posted by NatureCoastFL

The weather service keeps pushing the -50F forecast to the next few days. Now they are forecasting -50F saturday night, and monday night.

7-Day Zone Forecast for Middle Tanana Valley

Officially at the airport the coldest so far this month is -43F.

National Weather Service - Climate Data


The coldest temp state wide I could find is -60F at chicken reporting station (CQNA2)

and its funny that temps were in the positive just a couple weeks ago.

At -50 physics seem to bend and it like driving through another planet with the ice fog and smoke floating around.

[FOAD]

Originally Posted by akRosie

LOL I spent my worst winter EVER in North Dakota! In Watford City... we got home at 6p and at 630p when we were going to go to a friends' house to play cards, the drift had blocked the entire garage door! The drifting was insane! ad I'm originally from Michigan! =)

Shh! It is a tropical paradise down here.

(Don't want to argue 'round & 'round about northeastern Montana, North Dakota, and northern Minnesota winters with the people in this forum... Even though, NOAA data shows we're only about 15F degrees warmer, and have about a month less winter than Fairbanks.)

Go ahead, flame away. We need the heat and maybe then I'll have some more room to pile snow.

[RayinAK]

I have been asked to post a few photos of Fairbanks at -40. The sign with a temperature indicator at UAF broke down recently, so I took some of both North Pole & Fairbanks. Not the best photos, since I took them between the cracks and chips on my truck's windshield

North Pole. Notice the fog in the background, which also contains a lot of smug (the brown color)

Got out of the truck for this one in North Pole.

From the truck, North Pole. Lots of fog, but the camera kind of "sees" though it, so it doesn't show.

Squarebanks.

A foggy but sunny day in Squarebanks. Yes, that's the only sunlight we get at this time of the year

This one is for your enjoyment. Took it a few months ago.

[Barkingowl]

Nice photos Ray!

[Ponderosa]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

Well, we hardly see the sun at this time of the year, but when it does it shows around 10:00AM and goes away around 3:00PM, but it's so low in the horizon that sometimes one sees it only between the tree trunks.

Sunrise at 10:54 AM
Sunset at 2:56 PM
Duration of day: 4 hours, 2 minutes (today, 23 minutes more than yesterday).
Sun: South at 12:55 PM. Altitude 2° above horizon

Is it dark until 10 and after 3 or is there some skylight that makes the "day" longer?

[Grannysroost]

Nice pictures Ray...are those red and white poles like that all the time...or do they decorate them for christmas

[mal_flisk]

That's North Pole year round. The streets are named after the seasons highlights too. Candy Cane Lane, etc.

[HighlandLady]

I do want to get up there...it looks magical.

[InfectedMushroom]

Well duh! Santa lives there so it is magical!

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by Ponderosa

Is it dark until 10 and after 3 or is there some skylight that makes the "day" longer?

Well, there is some daylight after 8:00 AM. Well...it's not completely dark, but by 10:00 it's already clear (keep in mind that we are gaining nearly four minutes of daylight each day now, which later will be much more). Then there is some residual daylight after 3:00 PM, but again, not sunlight. In a way, this makes the day slightly longer, but it's not completely light, either. By June 22 or so, we should be having nearly 24-hour days (daylight).