So, I guess global warming might be helping? (Hope: costs, office)

[Nephler]

In the past week there have been times where Waslla was saying below zero and I was at about 5 above.

[Floyd_Davidson]

Originally Posted by socal4now

Umm Met according to this site the record low for Delta Junction was -63 in 1947.

That is the temperature recorded at one particular spot. Generally that spot is at the airport, and is not usually the place most likely to see extremes of either cold or heat. It also is not necessarily indicative of the general temperatures in the area in terms of extreme highs or lows. (It probably does provide a good indication of how the relative temperatures in an area change over time. And of course it is indicative of what a aircraft pilot needs to know prior to takeoff at that particular airport!)

Low temperture records in the Interior hit about -80F. Most areas never see colder than about -70F. Most "official" low temps are warmer than that, often even warmer than -60F.

But if you live in anywhere in the Interior, temps approaching -70F, even if the reported low temp is only in the -50's, is commonly what one has to deal with.

[JavaPhil]

Literally, the temps within Anchorage proper can differ as much as 25 degrees. The Campbell Creek Science Center is commonly the coldest place in town and places on Hillside within a few miles can be 15 degrees warmer.

[Metlakatla]

Umm Met according to this site the record low for Delta Junction was -63 in 1947.
Intellicast - Delta Junction Historic Weather Averages in Alaska (99737) Interesting that they had the record high in the same year.

Ummmmm....excuse me...I was talking about what I'd heard people say, not about some website. For some reason, the stories that the elderly people who have lived in an area all of their lives carry a little more weight that some internet site. And everyone is correct in what they've posted about the temps and how it can be warmer or colder by a few degrees within a given area.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by socal4now

Umm Met according to this site the record low for Delta Junction was -63 in 1947.
Intellicast - Delta Junction Historic Weather Averages in Alaska (99737) Interesting that they had the record high in the same year.

The others are correct about the "-63" temperature. A lot of the data on the Internet can't be relied upon, because it does not tell you the temperature of several locations around Delta Junction. For example, if you look at the National Weather Service data for North Pole, it shows a certain temperature recorded at a specific place in North Pole. But while it may be -43 degrees by the Post Office in North Pole, there usually is a 10-degree or more difference between the Post Office and Chena Lakes in North Pole.

The same can be said for Tok, where the "documented" (on the news) temperature a few days ago was -78 degrees. That specific temperature was recorded at a specific location in Tok, but it could have been colder or even warmer at other locations around Tok.

In the interior of Alaska, the temperatures at higher grounds (by Fairbanks, for example) usually are much higher than in the valley around North Pole. These temperature differences could be from 10 to 45 degrees. Lets say that it is around -40 degrees in Fairbanks: in this case, the temperature at the hills around Fairbanks could very well be -10 or warmer, and around North Pole it could be -55 or colder depending on the place it was recorded.

Floyd is pretty much on the money about the weather of the interior.

[socal4now]

As i said already, thank you for clearing that up. As stated before i was just repeating what i had read and immediatly upon reading why it was wrong said so. Thank you all for the information.

[JoDan]

Originally Posted by RayinAK

The others are correct about the "-63" temperature. A lot of the data on the Internet can't be relied upon, because it does not tell you the temperature of several locations around Delta Junction. For example, if you look at the National Weather Service data for North Pole, it shows a certain temperature recorded at a specific place in North Pole. But while it may be -43 degrees by the Post Office in North Pole, there usually is a 10-degree or more difference between the Post Office and Chena Lakes in North Pole.

The same can be said for Tok, where the "documented" (on the news) temperature a few days ago was -78 degrees. That specific temperature was recorded at a specific location in Tok, but it could have been colder or even warmer at other locations around Tok.

In the interior of Alaska, the temperatures at higher grounds (by Fairbanks, for example) usually are much higher than in the valley around North Pole. These temperature differences could be from 10 to 45 degrees. Lets say that it is around -40 degrees in Fairbanks: in this case, the temperature at the hills around Fairbanks could very well be -10 or warmer, and around North Pole it could be -55 or colder depending on the place it was recorded.

Floyd is pretty much on the money about the weather of the interior.

How would Denali (Mt McKinley) compare to Fairbanks?

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by JoDan

How would Denali (Mt McKinley) compare to Fairbanks?

McKinley is a completely different story, and one I don't know about, except that it pretty much controls the weather in that area of Alaska. But I can tell you about the one around Fairbanks: this city is right at the base of high ground (surrounding hills), and higher still than the valley or bowl where it gets colder. Just imagine Fairbanks as being not in the bottom of a bowl, but at the side of the bowl below the rim. The air temperature a few hundred feet above the bottom of the bowl often is warmer than the air at the bottom, so any place within the bowl that is higher than the bottom of the bowl usually experiences slightly warmer temperatures, unless there is an temperature "inversion" condition.

It also means that while it's very cold on the low grounds of the interior, small aircraft quite often encounter warmer currents not too far above.

[A~pyff~any]

Man global warming is def. not helping. If global warming was helping then y the hell are the ice caps melting like way sooner & like 80-90% of the caps are completely melting.

Its kinda crazy how **** has got this bad, I mean i remember thinkn we were gonna b all advanced with like flyin cars in the future but here we are in 2009 still using coal & gasoline (the dirtiest & least efficient fuel types) knowing that it's polluting the air we breath & screwin the natural flow of every thing up. The only reason "clean coal" & oil companies are still operational is bcuz of the monopoly & the billions of dollars that go along with it. Obama better start makin some real change while he's in office & not b just another politician who says what we wanna hear without acting.

The warmer weather has been nice except 4 the summer, but it can only get worse from here. Imagine china in like 20 years, with their already gross overpopulation & reliance on coal, I dont even wanna kno. History repeats itself & if the current trend keeps up we're gonna follow in the dinosaurs footsteps someway or another.

[Rance]

Like lern 2 spel? b'Kuz eye kant reed.