Why is there so much snow in Alaska? (Anchorage, Central: credit, house)

[warptman]

Wanted to join in the fun with the other boys

[Arcticthaw]

What are you talking about?? We don't have enough snow here! Your Data must be flawed!

[Blueberry]

Originally Posted by Arcticthaw

We don't have enough snow here!

What are you talking about?! We've got nothing but snow and ice here--YEAR ROUND! Good thing, too, because I'm thinking about adding an extension on the igloo! It wouldn't be convenient if the snow started melting.

As far as the OP, I think the reason we've got so much snow is because once upon a time, Alaska was a tropical rain forest. When that meteor thing hit Earth a bazillion years ago, it created a nuclear winter up north here, and all that rain turned into snow and ice. Have no fear, though! With global warming heating up the whole earth, we're soon to turn back into a tropical paradise. It was even raining at my house a few days ago!

[Arcticthaw]

So what will that do for your addition to the igloo plans?
If all your snow and ice melts will you have to let your trained Polar Bears go? I know you have been using them for hunting and pulling the extra large snow blocks for the other igloos you build up that way. Will they be able to survive after being raised from cubs and domesticated or will they join the fate of Binky?

This global warming is taking a toll on us here in the interior, not enough snow to cover the ground and with the tempatures falling this week, some peoples water and sewer line are going to freeze. The river hasn't even frozen over so the ice bridge is unusable too. But they are still building the box stores bigger and bigger!

[warptman]

Looks like you guys in southcentral are going to get hit by a big low pressure system, it warmed up to 24 degrees tonight from a low of 3 above here. Something is coming. Maybe more rain in the south center and more snow here

[DannyL]

Originally Posted by warptman

Why is there so much snow in Alaska?

it's George Bush's fault, and Al Gore will take credit for it...

[barnyardbabe]

okay here goes...am sure i will get some flack over my comments but here goes...
i been reading your Alaska forums for a couple of weeks now about how you all live up there and how cold it gets and high costs of heat and dry cabins etc..etc....i do not understand how you all can be so tuff to endure the eliments youn endure such as animals,weather, haul water,the extreme cold, and of course the snow.......????

I am a tuff country gal from central Missouri and we do have 'some' winter and cold winters...but i live on a farm and heat with wood and do have running water and i do have animals to care for-inside and out.......on the zero and or teen days i really have to bundle up to go do chores and or haul wood in..i have water heaters for the animals water to keep it thawed...i THINK it can be pretty tuff here at times...i CANNOT imagine it being worse conditions like you all endure living in Alaska...i guess you don't have no inside pets?? or no outside animals to care for?? have not seen that in any of the forums...

Guess what i am saying here is with living in Alaska you stay indoors as much as possible during the winter due to cold/snow and summer due to mosqitos?? i feel i am living in paradise here compared to you all...summer we can get outside and sit on porch for hours usually without many bugs...and its usually not so cold that we can get outside in the winter and play in the snow....

Just curious about your life up there with a few questions...please don't snowball me to death on my comments....LOL...All i can say for you all is KEEP WARM !!

[Metlakatla]

We don't all exist without running water. Some of us are even civilized enough to have indoor pets.

i feel i am living in paradise here compared to you all..

I highly doubt you know what paradise is.

[Rance]

What I'd like to know is...how do you people live anywhere else but Alaska?

"Nuther" storm a comin!

National Weather Service, Anchorage Forecast Office GOES Loop

[Dusty Rhodes]

I suspect that the heat wave in the Alaskan province has fried yall's brains, now, for really cold weather you have to migrate south, like the N. Central part of North Carolina (as we all know, it is so cold here that when fish are born, they have to defrost before they can swim away) why.... last night it almost reached 46 degrees, dang if that isn't but 14 degrees away from freezing! One mornin' last winter when everyone woke up there were birds layin' all over the ground, it was so cold that morning that when the birds went to fly off, their wings were froze solid, they had to lay on the ground for two weeks before it warmed up enough for them to fly off. (in case yall couldn't tell, I also lived in Texas for a while, the state, in which, exaggeration is considered an art form)