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February 8.... -72 in Alaska, Not wind chill either..

#1 Postby pwrdog » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:03 am

-72 in Chicken Alaska

It's been a while since I've seen temps like that! :cold: :froze:
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#2 Postby Ed Mahmoud » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:28 am

pwrdog wrote:-72 in Chicken Alaska

It's been a while since I've seen temps like that! :cold: :froze:


Does it have Texas on its mind?


Little between North Pole and Houston but blades of prairie grass and barb wire fences...
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Re: February 8.... -72 in Alaska, Not wind chill either..

#3 Postby Tireman4 » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:44 am

Frosty Chicken.....LOL
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Re: February 8.... -72 in Alaska, Not wind chill either..

#4 Postby jinftl » Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:50 pm

Take away the negative sign and Houston has identical temperatures to Chicken!!!

Remarkable warm-up in Chicken....back to almost 0 deg today...must feel like Spring! Temps in the 20's by the weekend...heat wave!!!

(The link also shows something amazing - between today and next Monday, Chicken gains an hour of daylilght!!!)
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/monthly/USAK0046?from=36hr_topnav_business



Ed Mahmoud wrote:
pwrdog wrote:-72 in Chicken Alaska

It's been a while since I've seen temps like that! :cold: :froze:


Does it have Texas on its mind?


Little between North Pole and Houston but blades of prairie grass and barb wire fences...
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Re: February 8.... -72 in Alaska, Not wind chill either..

#5 Postby shibumi » Mon Feb 11, 2008 2:08 pm

jinftl wrote:Take away the negative sign and Houston has identical temperatures to Chicken!!!

Remarkable warm-up in Chicken....back to almost 0 deg today...must feel like Spring! Temps in the 20's by the weekend...heat wave!!!

(The link also shows something amazing - between today and next Monday, Chicken gains an hour of daylilght!!!)
http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/monthly/USAK0046?from=36hr_topnav_business
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There is something wrong with that page...it shows daylight of 6 hours and 47 minutes today and 8 hours 18 minutes tomorrow....the daily change right now is aout 6 1/2 minutes a day. Check this out - it is 48 minutes diff from today to next Monday...

Go here and type in Fairbanks which is near the latitude of Chicken...
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/Dur_OneYear.php
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#6 Postby Aquawind » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:27 pm

Omigosh.. That is amazing. 48 minutes change in 24 hours can't be real. I assume the cold is though. :eek:
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#7 Postby Tstormwatcher » Mon Feb 11, 2008 7:34 pm

They have been that cold for the last week. Warm up is coming for them though. Doesn't look like any of that cold will head south or southeast.
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Re: February 8.... -72 in Alaska, Not wind chill either..

#8 Postby Scott Patterson » Mon Feb 11, 2008 11:21 pm

-72 in Chicken Alaska


Dang, that's pretty cold. I guess I can't complain next time it is -30. -72 is enough to freeze you quick. :eek:
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#9 Postby jinftl » Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:57 pm

Shocking as it sounds...that is absolutely real...keep in mind that by mid-March, this area (along with rest of Northern Hemisphere) will have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night....things change very quickly up there!!!

Aquawind wrote:Omigosh.. That is amazing. 48 minutes change in 24 hours can't be real. I assume the cold is though. :eek:
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#10 Postby shibumi » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:27 pm

jinftl wrote:Shocking as it sounds...that is absolutely real...keep in mind that by mid-March, this area (along with rest of Northern Hemisphere) will have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night....things change very quickly up there!!!

Aquawind wrote:Omigosh.. That is amazing. 48 minutes change in 24 hours can't be real. I assume the cold is though. :eek:


Actually that is not true...there was something wrong with the data for that day...the change from day to day is about 6-7 minutes right now.....there is no sudden jump in it.....
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#11 Postby jinftl » Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:50 pm

You are 100% correct....no sudden jumps of that magnitude in 24 hours...but 7 min/day equates to almost 50 min in a week....dramatic enough!!! Before long the days will be much longer in places like Chicken, AK than anywhere in the lower 48 (after mid-March or so).

shibumi wrote:
jinftl wrote:Shocking as it sounds...that is absolutely real...keep in mind that by mid-March, this area (along with rest of Northern Hemisphere) will have 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night....things change very quickly up there!!!

Aquawind wrote:Omigosh.. That is amazing. 48 minutes change in 24 hours can't be real. I assume the cold is though. :eek:


Actually that is not true...there was something wrong with the data for that day...the change from day to day is about 6-7 minutes right now.....there is no sudden jump in it.....
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Re: February 8.... -72 in Alaska, Not wind chill either..

#12 Postby jinftl » Wed Feb 20, 2008 12:05 pm

+44 degrees yesterday in Chicken, AK.....that's a 116 degree temp spread in less than 2 weeks!!!!

http://www.weather.com/outlook/travel/businesstraveler/pastweather/USAK0046?from=month_topnav_business

pwrdog wrote:-72 in Chicken Alaska

It's been a while since I've seen temps like that! :cold: :froze:
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