We had a brief touch of spring-like weather Sunday into Monday but that faded late in the afternoon. Monday around noon the winds--which were roaring!--shifted to come out of the north-northwest instead of the southwest. The clouds rolled in and the temperatures started to drop. First out of the 40s then into the low 30s. (That's when the clouds spit out just a teensy bit of snow.) Then, after dark, the temperatures continued to hall into the 20s and finally the teens.
This morning we had clear skies, slightly subdued winds out of the north, and a temperature of
11 9 degrees. It won't break freezing today as the temperature will only get into the upper 20s so there'll be no melting today, but it will be sunny! The winds will shift again tonight and we'll get warmer weather the rest of the week...I hope.
Whatever the temperatures, just going to the
Yukon Quest Facebook page will make me feel warmer. Reading about the -40 F and -50 F nights with howling winds, frostbite, hypothermia, and looking at spectacular photos that contain ice and snow as far as the eye can see (okay, that last part isn't much different from here) makes me feel warm all over as I sit here sipping my hot coffee next to the fireplace. And looking at the photos of the dancing Northern Lights at the Milepost 101 Check Point makes me want to be there, in Alaska and the northern Yukon and damn the cold and the dark.
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