Heat wave

[layla]

The weather continues to be odd ... According to Weather Underground, it's 0F in Fairbanks right now ... but our thermometer reads 22F, 10 miles to the north. A warm wind moved in this evening; it feels incredibly warm out there right now, even though the sky is clear.

Despite having a cold and feeling like eeegh, I got my goals for today finished (one Freebird inked, another penciled). Tomorrow's plan: ink a Freebird and clean my "studio" ... assuming I have enough energy for it. I hope it stays warm. The weather report is "meh" on that subject, but it's already considerably warmer than it was supposed to be tonight, so maybe we'll be lucky. It'll be above zero at the very least, and any day above zero is a good day in February.

I'm trying to be good and not laugh at the Lower 48 people and their "cold snap". The thing is, I *know* extreme weather is a shock when you're not used to dealing with it. Orion points out that Alaskans wouldn't handle a 110-degree heat wave any better than Ohio seems to be handling 5 degrees.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

When I moved from Alaska to California in October of 2000, the high temps in CA were 70-80, and I went around sweating and complaining about how hot it was. Acclimatization is a funny thing!

-SarahD in CA

[laylalawlor.livejournal.com]

It really does make a HUGE difference what you're used to. I remember going to Oregon one November while I was still in college. It had been -20 in Fairbanks and then it was 40 degrees and raining in Oregon, and we were all wandering around in T-shirts enthusing about how warm it was, while the native Oregon-ites gave us peculiar stares.