Bitter cold records broken in Alaska
Now this is cold:
The weather station in Jim River, AK closed in on the all time record coldest temperature of -80°F set in 1971. That’s not only the Alaska all-time record, but the record for the entire United States. Unfortunately, the weather station stopped reporting at -79°F.
And, as Jack London once warned, you just don't go out when it's below minus 75:
The cold of space smote the unprotected tip of the planet, and he, being on that unprotected tip, received the full force of the blow. The blood of his body recoiled before it. The blood was alive, like the dog, and like the dog it wanted to hide away and cover itself up from the fearful cold. So long as he walked four miles an hour, he pumped that blood, willy-nilly, to the surface; but now it ebbed away and sank down into the recesses of his body.
Just reading that makes me shiver!


1 Comments:
High of 51 (above, of course) today 'round these parts. I should consider myself fortunate.
Saw a sleeping bag for sale marked "-20" which strikes me as odd. Why would you be out camping if you for one moment thought it would approach 20 below?
Mark Slater, the Colorado Confederate
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