I'm Not Valid
Someone asked on the Alaska Living group about pollen counts in Alaska. I followed a link to Pollen.com and entered 99701 to get the local allergy forecast. Apparently we don't exist up here near the arctic circle because I got an error message, "The zip code you entered is not valid; please enter another." I have no other.
The Seven-Hour Barrier
Today we will have over seven hours of possible daylight. The sun is scheduled to come up at 9:33 a.m. and sunset will be at 4:34 p.m. That's three hours shorter than the day in Detroit, Michigan.
I'm up way too early to take a photograph. I'm so far behind now that I should start over and give up on catching up.
At least I can give you the temperature. At 2:17 a.m., the temperature is -8 F. Actually it's warmer here, but that's the temperature on my website. Checking out the Alaska Climate Research Center site the temperature is 15.7 F. and the humidity is 84%. I double check to make sure this is a Fairbanks report, and it is. There's also a webcam on this page. It's dark there, too.
The weather data has not been updated for January yet. According to Weather Underground, the high temperature yesterday was 3 above and the low was 8 below zero F. [ -16 �C and -22 �C approx.]. Yesterday was very pretty, and the sunset was gorgeous. I felt mopey, and I didn't feel much like dragging out the camera, putting on my shoes, to go out in the snow, and take a photo of it.
A World In Turmoil
First of February.... the whole world is wrapped up in the Columbia space shuttle strategy. I can't imagine that anyone cares what the weather is like in Fairbanks, Alaska.
