Get out of here!!!

HEAT WAVE

Man time to hit the Beach!!!

Ten degrees today and no wind. I felt like it was time to go swimming so I raced down to the south beach for a swim. Too bad though there is no water, just solid sheets of ice to the edge of the horizon. Oh well, the plan would have been a great one, but mother nature will have her way in the end.

-30... nice and chilly. Its not the coldest "felt" temperature that we have had, but it is the coldest "real" temperature to date. It has felt colder when we had -15 degrees and 65 mph winds. That felt colder.

Point Hope at High Noon

Point Hope at High Noon.

The sun is out there.

Just over the horizon.

And there it is... kind of.

The Blue Moon of the New Year.

Here it is again.

One more time.

Ok one more.

And the last one, really.

The Wind is insane

I'm trying to show the blowing ice and snow, but the particles are so small that they aren't really showing up in these pictures.
The white haze is blowing snow and ice, moving about 50 mph.
You may not see the blowing snow in this picture, but if you walked out there you would feel it. I think its just moving too fast to see. The haze that you see though is blowing ice and snow.
You can see that white haze around the lights which is snow.

I've never seen wind like this up here before. This is really nuts. NOAA is reporting gusts up to 55 mph at the airport, but I think maybe closer to 60 here. I went outside and got hit in the face with a chunk of blowing ice. It's really nuts. I'm going to try and post some pics but I don't think they do a good job of showing the blowing snow.

Look at this wind. Its blowing over 50 mph in gusts. The idiot weather forecast still predicts a low of 17 degrees and its 7 out there now with a windchill of God only knows what.