A Bit Chilly in Alaska

This Global Warming you hear so much about is getting out of hand up North here....!

Pete

Makes my fingers and feet hurt just reading it!

Awesome Pete! My wife Donna was saying about a month ago she wanted to move to Chicken, AK. I HAVE TO SHOW HER THIS!
She does not prefer the cold.

Blessings,
Mark

I bet White puts his long pants on today!

Do traps still work at those temps. thing praly ain't moving to good at them temps,'' hu??

freeze the nuggets of a chickenite.

It was 60 deg here yesterday morning and I was wishing for some cold but not like that

I don't think I would last 15min outside in the best "cold weather" clothes I own

WOW, be careful Pete, that’s real cold, hope you’re not beaver trapping. Chop chop chop.

At least it's not real cold in Fairbanks.

Wow , what's the wind chill factor at 30MPH on your snowmobile while checking traps ? !
Providing it would even start ...that's danger cold !!!

Those look like windchill temperatures. Coldest in Chicken last few days was -41. And yes still cold. Minus 40 is where both the Fahrenheit and Celcius scales actually meet i.e. mean the same. Can get confusing other times.

Thats right, better break out the shorts and sun tan lotion.

Seems to me it’s just getting down to the point where good Alaskans take notice.

Osky

They went through such a big list of bird names for towns,,they had to resort name one CHICKEN?

I hope you have a good base of Snow.

That's just Igloo building weather there!

My buddy lives in Kenny Lake. Said the needle on his thermometer hasn't moved off of -43 in 3 days. Well that was a couple days ago, so maybe it went lower.

No, People don't normally go out and about when it's that cold...if they value their machinery at all. Things break at those temps.

That is not windchill. Those are actual ambient air temperatures.

Atleast the bugs aren't bad......

The story goes that years back when they were trying to name the town..........the locals wanted to call it Ptarmigan but no one could spell it........so they decided on Chicken instead

LOL

Looks like temps when my brother in law was stationed up in Alaska(Mid 80s I think) and the temps were -60 for a very long stretch.He said everything was freezing up.Block heaters were a must,,and a lot of folks just tried to keep their vehicles running.

Looked it up. Population 12.

probably only put socks on then his sandals and told the wife to get more wood.( or the latest wife school student)

Cold spells happen every winter. Saw +39 on Dec 26 and -58 on Jan 2. Big difference

And I thought -2 degrees was cold here this morning.

You are a mind reader !!

That is the sort of positive attitude that trappers are famous for! Lol.

That'll wake you up in the morning (to put another log on the fire)

My buddy sent this picture a couple days ago. Said it was too cold to get down river to his “cold cabin”

Be time to close the windows pretty soon

Brad, I am betting that even one night that low in a feed yard or back grounding pens and everything would hurt by the time you figured out how to get everybody water and fèed. Unless you have been through it I doubt a man can fathom the horror of nothing workin and a couple hours worth of chores taking 16 hours

Pete be careful I am told passing stones isn't as much fun as it sounds like so I am guessing that passing ice vibes would be just as bad or worse!

Very dangerous business for sure. Back in the cold snap of 1989 a guy here got some fuel oil on his gloves while trying to clear a blocked filter. Lost all his fingers in just a minute or two.

Yikes, I am thinkin if I ever visit AK I will do it in July

))))))))) actually, I prefer the extreme cold over breathing mosquitoes

its nice when the snow squeeks when you walk and your nostrils stick together momentarily when breathing in.

I always thought that squeak was from my lungs

LOL! Thought that only happened to me!

Trucks sold surplus from the pipeline had a few miles but tons of idle hours since they ran 24/7 all winter.

That is just plain cold .

Probably related to white17. Otherwise she'd have goosebumps.

Nah...... She's overdressed for that temperature

Yeh, I bet them electric vehicles would do real well for you guys up there.

Around here we call that the Snowmobile Tan.

Reminds me, got to check when the bikini snowmobile races are this year.