Monthly Archives: December 2014
Happy Winter Solstice
Winter has officially arrived, and Interior Alaska is taking the date a little more seriously than usual. On Friday, December 19, Fairbanks saw its first subzero high temperature of the winter season. On average, we see our first subzero high by November 18.
Our unusually warm winter continues. The coldest we have seen so far, was -18 degs, which we hit on November 27 and 28. I can remember years when we couldn’t wait to see the temperature rise up to -20, and so far this season, we have yet to even drop down to that. It’s been damn nice, and I’ve been going through firewood at a snail’s pace. For the record, the latest we have ever seen the first -20 is January 3, which happened back in 1915.
Our winters may seem warmer lately, but they haven’t been any brighter. Sunrise this morning will be at 10:58 am, with the sun setting at 3:39 pm. Keep your eyes open, because it’s going to be a quick one.
Priceless:
Video courtesy of Dylan May’s youtube page. He was the kid at the start of the video back in 2005.
“There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar:
I love not Man the less, but Nature more,
From these our interviews, in which I steal,
From all I may be, or have been before,
To mingle with the universe, and feel
What I can ne’er express, yet cannot all conceal.”
— George Gordon Byron, “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage”
The forward magazine of the USS Shaw explodes, while the ship is in dry dock at Pearl Harbor. 7 December 1941
Within months, the Shaw was repaired and served through the rest of WWII, earning 11 Battle Stars.
Photo courtesy of the United States Navy
No argument
“A Land Rover is less of a car than a state of mind.”
— Car & Driver, 1964 Land Rover Review
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