Iceman567
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I usually check the sticky Snowbird Areas Weather when I'm on the Forum. Looked at the temperature map and noticed some maroon/red in Alaska. Checked weatherbugfor the Fairbanks,Alaska forecast.
50 degrees BELOW zero for today's HIGH!
I'll take the +75 in the valley today
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RRUGG
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For anybody staying there, hope they're not brass monkeys.
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tktplz
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I just saw on FOX & Friends that it's supposed to reach -47......BUUURRRRRRRRR! It was 24 degrees here in N W Louisiana this morning. I wasn't expecting it. Yesterday morning was 47. Much more the usual, not 24! 
Still it will be 63 for the high today and 70 tomorrow.....just in time to be back at work, Ha!
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Don in Niagara
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Wonder how accurate this info is? I looked at the Snowbird Weather Areas a minute ago and it said Phoenix is 39 degrees!
We are parked out on the desert just north of Phoenix and my Oregon Scientific digital wireless themometer says 53.8F in the shade behind the motorhome at 7am our time.
Because of our location we usually read BELOW the temp for Deer Valley Airport, our nearest Phoenix weather station???
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skipnchar
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Yes that's why not many folks vacation in Alaska in January (especially in a record breaking year for bad winter weather). Not all that bad for 100 miles from the arctic circle. It probably explains why Walmart in Fairbank has many parking stalls with electric outlets. IN spite of what summer RVers believe, it's NOT for their "backwoods camping at Walmart experience" 
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Don in Niagara wrote:Wonder how accurate this info is? I looked at the Snowbird Weather Areas a minute ago and it said Phoenix is 39 degrees!
We are parked out on the desert just north of Phoenix and my Oregon Scientific digital wireless themometer says 53.8F in the shade behind the motorhome at 7am our time.
Because of our location we usually read BELOW the temp for Deer Valley Airport, our nearest Phoenix weather station???
Don Looks like it is 38 degrees in Phoenix, NJ, 32 in Phoenix, NY and 29 in Phoenix, Oregon!
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The past hour and a half the temperature at my residence has been steady at -56 F below.... reached -50 again at 100am local time.
Saturday morning it fell to -52 f below as the first sub -50 temp of the winter.
Two Mondays ago the temp tried to surpass -50 but did not, reached -49.5 below F though.
They are talking the third coldest January of all time in this area since records were kept in 1900 - average 24 hour temperature for the entire month of -25 below.
The electrical outlets at Walmart are only a handful and strictly designated for staff parking and not for customer use...as employees that commute from farther distances are fighting for a plug in during daytime hours when forced to show up for work at these brutal temps....Other employees that live within town do opt for alternate rides or take a taxi instead of the hassle of commuting and fighting for a plug outlet.
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BB_TX
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I read the paper every morning and always glance at the weather page. I don't think Fairbanks has been above about -15 for a high for the last month or more!
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RoyF
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This is when I want to put on my warm robe and curl up with "To Make a Fire", by Jack London, or "The Cremation of Sam McGee", by Robert W. Service, safe and snug down here where it's one of the warmest winters on record.
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Gary.
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I was in Fairbanks the winter of 1968. I lived at 660 Fairbanks St. and worked at Eielson AFB, about 26 miles away. I took a picture of the bank thermometer when it said -45. The next week it got down to -61 for a week. There was a bar about half way between, I think it was called Boondocks. We would stop in there on the way home about 11:00 at night. We couldn't get the door open because of thick frost all around it so someone inside had to put their shoulder to the door to get it open. We had 2 sets of car keys so we would leave our vehicle and the heater running for a couple of hours while we had a cool one. It was also bad getting to work because of the ice fog on the highway caused by the moisture from cars exhausts! You couldn't hardly see the road, but if you looked off the side of the road you could see for miles!
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