Snow, Warmer Weather, Coldest Temperatures This Year

16 December 2012
12:25 PM

Sunrise at	10:54 AM	in direction	154°	South-southeast
Sunset at	2:39 PM	in direction	206°	South-southwest

Duration of day: 3 hours, 44 minutes (1 minute, 40 seconds shorter than yesterday)

The center glow, muted by the camera lens, is the sun at 12:16 PM

 

We had major snow last week, for the Interior and Fairbanks anyway. In general, the snows here are nothing like the heavy and fast snowfalls of Colorado, but if the storm persists over time accumulations are decent.  This last storm yielded about 18" - very decent storm.  Along with the storm came warmer temperatures and none of us complained about that.  We shoveled the deck three times at approximately 6" accumulation intervals, once just as the storm was starting, once the next day and once as the storm was slowing down.  The snow accumulation looks more like March than December right now.  My son-in-law, Jamie, plowed twice in two days.


It was a lovely storm!

An entertaining view of our deck railing

Then the temperatures dropped again.  Last reading from the airport at 11:53 AM was -42F, -41C.  The deck reads -30F and we consider ourselves lucky.  We should get a respite again in a few days as clouds come in for a bit more snow.

I have a hard time getting to work on time the two weeks before solstice.  It is suddenly so very dark in the morning for a very long time and my body is simply confused.  Although I went to bed @ midnight last night and would normally be up by 8 or 9 AM, this morning I did not get up until 11:30 AM.  Clocks don't seem to help either.  We have a hard closure on campus at the end of this week (solstice) through the new year.  I love that week because I can sleep without guilt as the light slowly begins to return.