Did Barrow really record 127 below 0 in January? (Fairbanks, Valdez: palm trees, interior)
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I'm looking at the weather archive for January of this year and on Friday, the 7th, the high was 11 and low was -120. Was this real?
Link: "http://www.wunderground.com/history/airport/PABR/2011/1/28/MonthlyHistory.html"
(scroll down the page for daily temps) BTW, the interior isn't the coldest part of Alaska, the North slope is
Last edited by neurosurgeon; 07-29-2011 at 12:41 PM..
The North Slope is consistently colder on average then the interior, the interior sets the records for coldest temps. No, the low was not -120 in Jan of this year. I seem to recall the coldest temp from this rather mild past Winter was around -60 with wind chill.
Temperatures below -100 are normally found only in Antarctica (really are penguins there - lol), where the coldest temperature ever recorded on earth (-128F) was reached in 1983.
The coldest temperature ever recorded in the Northern Hemisphere was -90F at Verkhoyansk, Russia in 1892.
Another tidbit on Verkhoyansk... it is like Fairbanks on steroids. Massive inversions produce the lowest temperature recorded at -90F, highest temperature on record there was 99F. That's a difference of 189 degrees! Pretty crazy.
Another tidbit on Verkhoyansk... it is like Fairbanks on steroids. Massive inversions produce the lowest temperature recorded at -90F, highest temperature on record there was 99F. That's a difference of 189 degrees! Pretty crazy.
there is no temperature inversion in Siberia. Fairbanks lies at the trough of the Tanana valley, which helps to encapsulate the colder air during cold wave. Siberia is not bounded by any mountain ranges. Temperatures are consistently cold during the winter months. The average high in January is around -56 and average low is -67. The record high in Siberia is the record low in Fairbanks. Even the coldest part of Alaska is a no match for Siberia in the winter. Fairbanks only occasionally drops below -40, but that is actually the correct temperature range for its latitude. At 64 degrees latitude, Fairbanks should be well below -40 consistently during winter. Sadly, its proximity to the Pacific ocean causes the city to be warmer than the norm found elsewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verkhoyansk
Last edited by Heat lover; 07-29-2011 at 10:13 PM..
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