By the first of March, the days are pleasant. The snow is still on the ground but it's not as deep as it was. The sun is melting the snow on the paved areas. The snow graders busily push the snow berms away from the edge of the highway.
Usually the low temperature rises above freezing for the first time in months, but this year we've had unseasonably warm weather. In the meantime, the midwest and the east coast is having snowstorms while Fairbanks basks in the winter sun.
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Due to unseasonably warm weather, we need freezers to save our snowman! If you have empty freezer space, please contact me asap! |
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March is the month for
- the Winter Ice Festival - Winter 1997 Photos
- the Yukon Quest
- the Great North American Sled Dog Race.
- the 1000-mile Iditarod. In 2003, the start of the race was held in Fairbanks because of the lack of snow around Anchorage.
- Photos of Libby Riddles, the first woman to win the Iditarod Sled Dog Race, and photos of her dogs.
March is the time to start seedlings indoor for outside planting later.
On March 21, Alaska has the same number of hours of daylight as of darkness, just like the rest of the world as the earth rotates on its axis and reaches the spring equinox.
On March 27, 1964, Alaska started shaking like it never shook before. Read a first-person account of the Good Friday Great Alaskan Earthquake.
