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glacier_kittyFAIRBANKS — A period of severe cold that has the potential to replicate legendary cold snaps of 1989 and 1999 is forecast next week in Fairbanks. The forecast calls for sustained temperatures below minus 40 and little relief for residents in the hills where temperatures are usually warmer.
The prediction is just beyond the National Weather Service's 7-day forecast horizon. Weather models predict a cold low-pressure air mass to move over Interior Alaska in the next 7 to 10 days.
The predicted cold snap is different from a more typical cold snap that is caused by an inversion — higher-elevation warm air that traps cold air in low-lying areas like Fairbanks and North Pole, said National Weather Service Climate and Science Services Manager Rick Thoman.
"When we have the big high pressures like we have right now, we tend to get very strong inversions. The air mass overall is not that cold," he said. "The really extreme events like the 1989, like the 1999 event, occur when we get the air mass very cold, not just on the surface but through much of the lower part of the atmosphere."
January 1989 is the cold snap that many winters are compared against, Thoman said. The temperature hit 54 below at Fairbanks International Airport and 63 below at TV station KJNP in North Pole. People in the hills who weren't accustomed to deep freezes had problems with their heating oil gelling, Thoman said.
Ughhh..can I go back to Arizona?? That sounds kinda scary D:
Today at work I found a novel Mark Gatiss wrote..wow, I didn't know he was a writer too! Cool, maybe I should read it lol (he's Cherry the Second! <3 Hehe)
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a picture survey for the bored and/or photography enthusiasts
the photo can be of you with these things, the things on their own, or...be creative!
1. the first thing you see when you walk into your house
2. an electrical outlet
3. the floor of your bedroom
4. your favorite place to sit
5. a clock
6. the kitchen sink
7. an oven mitt
8. a bookshelf
9. an old shopping bag
10. the best view in the house
11. the view from your bedroom window
12. your silverware drawer
13. a stuffed animal
14. something you like that's hanging on the wall
15. the toilet paper dispenser
16. your favorite pair of shoes
17. an instrument
18. where you usually eat
19. your favorite food in the refrigerator
20. a lamp
21. the camera you're using
22. something blue
23. your favorite pillow
24. something you really like
25. you and your computer with your survey site opened up
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The prediction is just beyond the National Weather Service's 7-day forecast horizon. Weather models predict a cold low-pressure air mass to move over Interior Alaska in the next 7 to 10 days.
The predicted cold snap is different from a more typical cold snap that is caused by an inversion — higher-elevation warm air that traps cold air in low-lying areas like Fairbanks and North Pole, said National Weather Service Climate and Science Services Manager Rick Thoman.
"When we have the big high pressures like we have right now, we tend to get very strong inversions. The air mass overall is not that cold," he said. "The really extreme events like the 1989, like the 1999 event, occur when we get the air mass very cold, not just on the surface but through much of the lower part of the atmosphere."
January 1989 is the cold snap that many winters are compared against, Thoman said. The temperature hit 54 below at Fairbanks International Airport and 63 below at TV station KJNP in North Pole. People in the hills who weren't accustomed to deep freezes had problems with their heating oil gelling, Thoman said.
Ughhh..can I go back to Arizona?? That sounds kinda scary D:
Today at work I found a novel Mark Gatiss wrote..wow, I didn't know he was a writer too! Cool, maybe I should read it lol (he's Cherry the Second! <3 Hehe)
SO EXCITING
a picture survey for the bored and/or photography enthusiasts
the photo can be of you with these things, the things on their own, or...be creative!
2. an electrical outlet
3. the floor of your bedroom
4. your favorite place to sit
5. a clock
6. the kitchen sink
7. an oven mitt
8. a bookshelf
9. an old shopping bag
10. the best view in the house
11. the view from your bedroom window
12. your silverware drawer
13. a stuffed animal
14. something you like that's hanging on the wall
15. the toilet paper dispenser
16. your favorite pair of shoes
17. an instrument
18. where you usually eat
19. your favorite food in the refrigerator
20. a lamp
21. the camera you're using
22. something blue
23. your favorite pillow
24. something you really like
25. you and your computer with your survey site opened up
Today's trivia: Laws pertaining to birth aboard aircraft and ships mean it is possible for a person born on a British ship, anchored in a United States port, with a Chinese father and Turkish mother, to have quadruple nationality
