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Today: icy-cold Alaska pictures from the last few days.
How much do I need to explain overflow? I'm not sure how far south it occurs. Basically, water expands when it freezes. When it's cold, a body of water freezes on top but remains liquid underneath. As it freezes downward, the expanding water has to go somewhere and it pushes up where the ice is thin and flows over the top. Then *that* freezes, and so forth, the ice building up in onionlike layers. At least that's my understanding of the phenomenon. It usually happens when things first freeze up in the fall, and when the weather starts to warm up in the spring, like now.
Here is our footbridge over the creek, somewhere under a foot or two of ice.
The 1,000 mile Yukon Quest is the lesser-known little brother of the Iditarod -- it's an endurance dogsled race from Whitehorse (Canada) to Fairbanks. The race switches direction each year, so this year it started in Whitehorse and ended in Fairbanks. The finish line is on the Chena River ice about a block from the News-Miner building, so I walked over and joined the watchers on the footbridge over the river, to watch the winner come under the bridge and across the line. This turned out to be a bad angle for taking pictures -- not only was I pretty high up, but I was off to one side so the dog teams were all strung out and it was difficult to get a shot that showed dogs and driver.
And last, because Neosquirrel requested it ... the freaky Fairbanks moon, rising over the neighbor's fuel tank.
How much do I need to explain overflow? I'm not sure how far south it occurs. Basically, water expands when it freezes. When it's cold, a body of water freezes on top but remains liquid underneath. As it freezes downward, the expanding water has to go somewhere and it pushes up where the ice is thin and flows over the top. Then *that* freezes, and so forth, the ice building up in onionlike layers. At least that's my understanding of the phenomenon. It usually happens when things first freeze up in the fall, and when the weather starts to warm up in the spring, like now.
Here is our footbridge over the creek, somewhere under a foot or two of ice.
The 1,000 mile Yukon Quest is the lesser-known little brother of the Iditarod -- it's an endurance dogsled race from Whitehorse (Canada) to Fairbanks. The race switches direction each year, so this year it started in Whitehorse and ended in Fairbanks. The finish line is on the Chena River ice about a block from the News-Miner building, so I walked over and joined the watchers on the footbridge over the river, to watch the winner come under the bridge and across the line. This turned out to be a bad angle for taking pictures -- not only was I pretty high up, but I was off to one side so the dog teams were all strung out and it was difficult to get a shot that showed dogs and driver.
And last, because Neosquirrel requested it ... the freaky Fairbanks moon, rising over the neighbor's fuel tank.
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