I had just finished reading this story today in the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner detailing the recent cold snap that has kept the Fairbanks area at 40 degrees below zero for 8 days now (some areas as have been as low as 52 below zero), when I went to cnn.com and saw this story about the "Icebox of the Nation", International Falls, MN.
The story about International Falls brags that they have just recorded a new record low of -40, three degrees colder than the previous record low of -37, and it had warmed up to -18 by morning. In contrast, in Fairbanks -40 is not an uncommon number to reach for days at a time and for most of last week the high temp for the day was in the -30's.
I had two thoughts on this:
1) Why is it that a town in MN getting to -40 for a few hours overnight makes front-page news on cnn.com when parts of AK are -40 all the time?
2) Maybe the town that gives itself a name like "Icebox of the Nation" should have to be the coldest place in the nation.
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I'd guess it's because those smart, educated people at CNN know that no one *really* lives in Alaska like no one really lives in Antarctica.
So they only make a big deal of places where life-timers have to live through it.
And it did get up to -6 on Sat, according to at least one bank clock while I was out with one of my girls.
-13 this morning could be felt as warmer in the house too. Interesting, really, how we all (even inanimates like cars and houses) seem to acclimate to everything.
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