This January is setting up to be one of the coldest on record here in the interior of Alaska, according to an article in today’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. It has been colder than -20f or it will warm up then snow for what seems like an eternity. What this has meant for us is that it has been too cold to travel by plane. So today as I’m clearing my desk of months of backed-up paper work, wishing that I could be out visiting folks in the bush, I am watching some of the videos on our YouTube channel. This video is the most popular of all and for good reason, bright sun, fresh powder and a smooth touchdown (if I say so myself).
Tag Archives: Weather
Alpine Glow
This was the view while I was on my ‘I don’t care that it’s 40 below, I’m tired of doing paperwork,” walk to the post office.
Fog
The weather was not the best for the trip yesterday. I had planned to go visit friends in the bush, read about the reason for the trip in this post. Warm winds from the south and cold air on the surface caused a large area of fog to develop rather quickly and I had to keep changing plans.
Change of plan…
This Sunday night we started a new series at Church. Demolishing Strongholds from Answers In Genesis. It’s a great study on how the creation / evolution debate is not about different facts but different presuppositions. We are all looking at the same evidence in the present. Evolution tries to figure out the past from the present and Creation understands the present by what the Bible tells us about the past. Huge difference!
Half way through the lesson this week I had to leave because of a major explosion at a gas station 100 miles south of us. They needed another ambulance and medics. Here is a story from the Fairbanks Newsminer. The situation was compounded by the nasty roads. It had been raining through out the day and the roads were like a hockey rink! Rain this time of year is never good!
Weather and Thanksgiving
The weather is always a big topic of discussions, it is a major factor in everyone’s daily life. As Natalie told me yesterday, be careful Daddy you don’t have all the right gear on you might die out in the cold. This Fall has been a little trying. We received slightly more snow than normal before it got cold enough to freeze the lakes and rivers completely. The river here in Nenana was still open up till a week ago. There are big areas of overflow on the rivers and lakes, not fun when trying to operate the airplane or snowmachine! For the past few weeks we have been setting new record lows and now there is a Chinook in the forecast and we might get above freezing this week. Folks are always saying that “this weather is not normal” no matter the season or weather. Well there is one thing I have learned, there is no “normal” to our weather.
Normally (I use the term loosely) we travel to the bush to spend Thanksgiving with friends. It is one of several times during the year we all gather in one place and enjoy a couple of days of visiting, study and good food. This year, weather and other’s travels postponed our gathering. We were able to spend Thanksgiving with friends here in Nenana instead. We hope that we can get together before Christmas and share some great fellowship and food.