Fifty below zero in Fairbanks? (North Pole: to buy, storage, store)

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by InfectedMushroom

Well duh! Santa lives there so it is magical!

That's real funny

[akRosie]

Originally Posted by FOAD

Shh! It is a tropical paradise down here.
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Go ahead, flame away. We need the heat and maybe then I'll have some more room to pile snow.

I wouldn't flame you (and I try not to start arguments!) I was just sharin!!

I logged on tonight to share yet another Wunderground.com "oops!"
Apparently they think it's RAINING here - LOL - I assure you - it's not raining!

-47°F
Current:Rain
Wind: SE at 0 mph
Humidity: 36%

[Bruce 01]

I'm a weather-extremes junkie and check worldwide temps every day, thanks to the internet.

So far this season, the NWS lowest official temp in AK was -58 on Dec. 31 and Jan 1 in Chalkyitsik. SOURCE (December's temps are on a previous page.)





On December 12, '08 it was -72 F. in Siberia. Last winter ('07-08) the coldest I saw in Siberia was -71, and Chicken AK beat it by one degree: -72, the lowest of the season for you guys (going from memory here, but I think it's right.)



Siberia - current weather


Now the grand-daddy of cold is at the Russian station, Vostok in Antarctica, but they're in the middle of summer there now so it's kinda boring. It hasn't gotten up to zero yet, but they're forcasting a high of -7 for tomorrow. In July of last year the lowest I saw was -117. It holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded on this planet, -128.6 F on July 21, 1983.

CURRENT WEATHER AT VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Bruce 01

I'm a weather-extremes junkie and check worldwide temps every day, thanks to the internet.

So far this season, the NWS lowest official temp in AK was -58 on Dec. 31 and Jan 1 in Chalkyitsik. SOURCE (December's temps are on a previous page.)





On December 12, '08 it was -72 F. in Siberia. Last winter ('07-08) the coldest I saw in Siberia was -71, and Chicken AK beat it by one degree: -72, the lowest of the season for you guys (going from memory here, but I think it's right.)



Siberia - current weather


Now the grand-daddy of cold is at the Russian station, Vostok in Antarctica, but they're in the middle of summer there now so it's kinda boring. It hasn't gotten up to zero yet, but they're forcasting a high of -7 for tomorrow. In July of last year the lowest I saw was -117. It holds the record for the coldest temperature ever recorded on this planet, -128.6 F on July 21, 1983.

CURRENT WEATHER AT VOSTOK, ANTARCTICA

Problems with the weather that is reported in many of the areas aren't where the real cold is at. In Nenana it shows about -46 right now, and here south of there, our two temps on the house show -57 and -56. There are a lot of colder places, just nobody there to record them. In Fairbanks they get the ice fog that sets in and that helps keep the temps a bit higher, but if you drive up into the hills, it will rise some twenty more degrees or more in a few min's time.

For what it matters, after about -20 I can tell that temp because that is where my nose hairs start to freeze. Much colder than that, you don't really notice, it just makes you colder quicker...

[mal_flisk]

Darn, I'm supposed to be in Chalkyitsik later this month.

[Bruce 01]

Originally Posted by starlite9

Problems with the weather that is reported in many of the areas aren't where the real cold is at. In Nenana it shows about -46 right now, and here south of there, our two temps on the house show -57 and -56. There are a lot of colder places, just nobody there to record them. In Fairbanks they get the ice fog that sets in and that helps keep the temps a bit higher, but if you drive up into the hills, it will rise some twenty more degrees or more in a few min's time.

For what it matters, after about -20 I can tell that temp because that is where my nose hairs start to freeze. Much colder than that, you don't really notice, it just makes you colder quicker...

Yup, the official all-time AK low in Prospect Creek of -80, and for North America of -81 in Snag, Yukon, may not really be the coldest, they're just the recorded lowest so that's what they go with. Those numbers have been disputed as has the northern hemisphere lowest of -90 in Siberia.

Lower numbers have been reached but they weren't official so they don't count.

[NatureCoastFL]

Originally Posted by 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

Thanks Ray, awesome pics again.

[FOAD]

Siberia is brutal. Perhaps it is due to the length of the Russian steppe/tundra, and the jet stream patterns in that region. We suffer in the Dakotas due to the jetstream patterns. If Alaska didn't have so many mountains it would be much colder, as polar air would frequently settle over the state.

[The Grill God]

-28 with 25-35mph winds. Around -60/-69 windchill today in Kuparuk, Ak. Sounds like the cold weather will be with us a while.

[940]

Great pics..thanks for posting them! I love reading everyone's perspective on the extreme cold up there..I just can't imagine what it's like when it's that cold but I'd love to experience it some day. The coldest I've ever been in is -21F which seems like a heat wave compared to what the temps are now!