Gravitating towards the minus zero mark
Well the week end found us with an mixture of weather. Rain, freezing rain, freezing drizzle, Snow and back to freezing drizzle in between the snow bands. In all we came up with an total of 6.5 inches of precip in the frozen form. Saturdays snow was the wettest with moisture content of .30 of an inch. temperatures was mild in the low 30’s to high 20’s. While moving snow yesterday notice that it was getting an little chilly. Just had Carhart vest and heavy shirt on. When I started it was 22 degrees. So decided it was good time for coffee break. (anytime is coffee time) and while in I check WD to see what temp was doing. Was down to 19 and dropping as the cold front moved thru. Had been dropping for about an hour and stayed there for the next 2 hours before it started to rise.
With us going on standard time there is really an shortage of evening daylight as the sun keep moving south and has an shorter and shorter arc across the horizion. Not an lot of warmth coming from it due to the low angle.
This AM wife and hit the icy roads to head into Fairbanks. Was an balmy 15 degrees. As we started to drop into the Fairbanks bowl the temps started to drop. By the time we got to Eilsen AFB temps was down to 3 deg. F. and stayed there most of the way into North Pole.
Looking ahead this week in the forecast it looks like we will be hitting the below zero mark. Was 9 deg this AM for our low under partly cloudy sky. Last night had good bright moon shining on the fresh white surroundings. Almost grab camera to snap an quick shot.
Other then the above it back to same old hum dum weather again so with that
Stayt warm and keep an log on the fire.