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Primary Author Richard James
2010-2013 Author Rick Thoman
Monday, December 17, 2012
Still Warm…Aloft at Least
Fairbanks-land inversions continue to grow early Monday evening: at 6pm, it was above zero in the warmest higher elevations and still in the 40s below on the valley bottoms
Picked up the wife after work at Irving 1...furnace exhausts were blowing sideways and nice and warm. Back here in the College Road milk bottle it's still -40. Gotta' wonder why after almost 48 yrs I haven't moved uphill.
Back in the late '60's we'd measure ice fog by how many street lights ahead on College we could see. When it was down to one, we knew it was cold.
Another thing of the past...many folks had one of those small rectangular house thermometers tied to their auto AM radio antenna. Made for entertainment and a point of reference when driving blind. Don't see many with that mod today.
Then here were those stick-on clear plastic "double pane" insulators for the car's interior windows. Prevented frost from forming. Might be extinct.
Picked up the wife after work at Irving 1...furnace exhausts were blowing sideways and nice and warm. Back here in the College Road milk bottle it's still -40. Gotta' wonder why after almost 48 yrs I haven't moved uphill.
ReplyDeleteBack in the late '60's we'd measure ice fog by how many street lights ahead on College we could see. When it was down to one, we knew it was cold.
Gary
Or January 1989, when the visibility was about to the hood of your car (so I'm told: I was in in Nome at the time).
ReplyDeleteAnother thing of the past...many folks had one of those small rectangular house thermometers tied to their auto AM radio antenna. Made for entertainment and a point of reference when driving blind. Don't see many with that mod today.
ReplyDeleteThen here were those stick-on clear plastic "double pane" insulators for the car's interior windows. Prevented frost from forming. Might be extinct.
Gary
These days weather-weenies have digital thermometer probes tied to their vehicle antenna. Of course, the wires regularly break.
DeleteMy wife and I were just talking the other day about those clear plastic patches for windows. I had forgotten about those.
Rick