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This is such a strange place
And now all of a sudden, it's summer. It was 67 degrees today and it's supposed to be 75 on Thursday. Of course, we had 3 feet of snow at the end of last week, and while it's melting its little heart out, there is only so much that thermodynamics can do under the circumstances. The long and the short of it is that it's 70 degrees and there's still quite a lot of snow on the ground. So you can run around in a T-shirt and shorts in the snow and be perfectly comfortable. Also, there is not a single green thing out yet -- about the closest we have are pussy willows; all else is dead and brown. All the trees know better than to start with the leaves; it may not be freezing at night right now, but we will definitely have more frosts before winter gives up entirely.
We got our first rain this weekend -- a very light misting, but still a reminder of a kinder, gentler time of year.
I also noticed something bizarre this weekend ... you know how a cold drink with ice cubes in it will normally frost up the glass? Well, Fairbanks is TOO DRY. The glass gets quite cold, but it does not get wet. There simply isn't enough moisture in the air.
We got our first rain this weekend -- a very light misting, but still a reminder of a kinder, gentler time of year.
I also noticed something bizarre this weekend ... you know how a cold drink with ice cubes in it will normally frost up the glass? Well, Fairbanks is TOO DRY. The glass gets quite cold, but it does not get wet. There simply isn't enough moisture in the air.
Re: < No, Amelie, you need something bigger to dig out with.
Illinois weather is definitely bipolar. It'll be beautiful and sunny, and then two hours later, raining cats and dogs with tornados. It doesn't really do that here in Fairbanks ... the weather systems move in and out slowly, and it's rare to get what you might call extreme weather, aside from the severe cold in the winter. We don't usually have downpouring rain, windstorms, ice storms or the like. I've seen wild temperature swings in midwinter (say, from 40 below to 20 above in a couple of days) but it's a lot less dramatic when it goes from "damn cold" to just "cold".