Cold!!!

[markpark]

15 degrees in Juneau and Skagway the last two days. Only six weeks before cruise season. Sure hope it warms up some!

[bearbait]

Don't worry about it. Those of us that live here aren't. It is what it is.

[huskyguy]

For those taking one of the Skagway excursions up to Carcross, it was -26F there this morning. Yes, MINUS 26 - a tad nippy for Spring, some said. :)

[AKman2495]

You guys are apparently not familiar with that old song about Springtime in Alaska:

 

I mushed from Point Barrow thru a bizzard of snow

Been out prospectin' for two years or so

Pulled into Fairbanks the city was a boom

So I took a little stroll to the Red dog Saloon.

 

As I walked in the door the music was clear

The purtiest voice I had heard in two years

The song she was singin' made a man's blood run cold

When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below.

 

(When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below.)

It was Red-headed Lil who was singin' so sweet

I reached down and took the snowpacks off my feet

I reached for the gal who was singin' the tune

We did the Eskimo Hop all around the saloon.

 

With a Caribou Crawl and the Grizzly Bear Hug

We did our dance on a Kodiak rug

The song she kept singin' made a man's blood run cold

When It's Springtime In Alaska, it's forty below.

 

I was as innocent as I could be

I didn't know Lil was big Ed's wife to be

He took out his knife and he gave it a throw

When It's Springtime In Alaska, I'll be six feet below.

 

TAG: (When It's Springtime In Alaska, he'll be six feet below.)

[mytime53]

Always loved that song...1959, Johnny Horton!

[B Russo]

It's called GLOBAL WARMING LOL Here in the hot part of Texas we still have a few nights in the 30's :D Bill

[tee_harbor]

It's actually climate change, which this winter followed that pattern earlier, by having just endless days of rain instead of cold and snow. We need freezing and a snow layer for our yellow cedars to survive. Their deaths are our canaries in the coal mine.

 

But onto something more important; your cruises! I still say most of the snow will be gone by the start of cruise season. Warmth...I can't make any promises. However, this cold snap's only been going on for a week or so. Unlikely to hold for another six. It's supposed to warm up this weekend...Look, it's 34 already!

[dsrdsrdsr]

Absolutely climate change. As we all know, until 1990 or so you could know exactly what the weather would be a year or more in advance. Now, the climate changes every year. ;)

 

Global Warming ended a few years ago, when the experts realised they'd been wrong all down the line. Obviously they couldn't change their opinion, because that would put them out of a job, but they could change the name.

 

We're having a cold snap in Britain at the moment too - this global warming is bringing low temperatures all over the Northern hemisphere. But don't worry, it has virtually no effect on the probability of good weather in 6 weeks' time. It just means there'll be more snow on the mountains.

[swcjlc]

15 degrees in Juneau and Skagway the last two days. Only six weeks before cruise season. Sure hope it warms up some!

 

I had been looking at that on my phone. Brrrr.

We will be there the first week of May

 

We are Prepared for the cold

[WannabePhotog]

I've been waiting for warmer temps up here in WI, and then I remember that my first vacation is to Alaska. Oh well, I'm ready!!