<–picture is “downtown”
Chicken, Alaska…(click to enlarge). A cooperative observer in Chicken, Alaska reported a temperature of 68° below zero Thursday morning. That’s 100 DEGREES BELOW THE FREEZING MARK!! The high temperature was -58°. Chicken has been below zero continuously since Dec. 7. Side note: When they incorporated the town and needed a name, they wanted to call the town “Ptarmigan”, after a local bird. However, they couldn’t agree on the correct spelling of ptarmigan, so they decided to call the town “Chicken”. This is the coldest temperature so far this winter in Alaska. Fairbanks has been -45° or colder each of the last five mornings. Over the last two weeks, Fairbanks has averaged 28.2° colder than normal! Last Saturday, Dawson, Yukon had a high temperature of -51°. That was 45° colder than average!
January 8th, 2009 at 10:22 pm by Bill Steffen under Bill's Blog, Weather
<–picture is “downtown” Chicken, Alaska…(click to enlarge). A cooperative observer in Chicken, Alaska reported a temperature of 68° below zero Thursday morning. That’s 100 DEGREES BELOW THE FREEZING MARK!! The high temperature was -58°. Chicken has been below zero continuously since Dec. 7. Side note: When they incorporated the town and needed a name, they wanted to call the town “Ptarmigan”, after a local bird. However, they couldn’t agree on the correct spelling of ptarmigan, so they decided to call the town “Chicken”. This is the coldest temperature so far this winter in Alaska. Fairbanks has been -45° or colder each of the last five mornings. Over the last two weeks, Fairbanks has averaged 28.2° colder than normal! Last Saturday, Dawson, Yukon had a high temperature of -51°. That was 45° colder than average!
wow
I guess thee are a lot of frozrn Chickens in Chicken Alaska.
SlimJim
Man, just looking at that picture, I’d have to say those guys sitting out at the picnic table on the far right must be some hearty SOB’s. 100 below zero and they’re sitting outside eating and drinking.
Imagine how cold it would be if the sun weren’t out!
I still think the oddest name is Skookumchuck in British Columbia. Well, I didn’t get the two feet of snow I was hoping for, though the weather is still exciting and it’s been a good birthday today.
I certainly hope WE dont get that cold. LOL
Next week I will have to remind myself that it is always colder somewhere. I can make it through a week +/- of bitter weather. I can. I can. My parents left for Florida today. Perfect timing. Ha! I told them to bottle up some heat and bring it back.
The funny thing is it doesnt look that cold out there. It looks like it is 20 degrees above zero to me. I dont know how those guys can stand sitting out there in -68 weather. I think one minute out in that kind of weather I would die of a heart attack or something.
wow -68 and the guys in t-shirts are sitting out having lunch (right hand screen)
Folks, that is obviously not a current picture. There is NO snow and the grass is green and folks are in short sleeve shirts….That is a summer picture!!!
This is a picture of downtown Chicken Creek Alaska. But it’s not Chicken Creek anytime in 2009. Look closely, I think that’s Sarah Palin in the pickup.
This may be TMI, but….
Chicken Creek, located on the Taylor Highway between Tok and the Alaska-Yukon border west of Dawson City, is a colourful village which has a year-round population of only about a dozen.
Gold mining has been carried on in the area since 1886, and the post office, established in 1903, is one of the oldest in interior Alaska.
There are 4 distinctive sections of Chicken now, all quite widely spaced. Coming in from the east, there’s “New Chicken” (where The Goldpanner is), then the original townsite (to the north of, and not visible from, the highway). If you turn south off the highway on Airport Road you come to the “Chicken Mall” and The Original Chicken Gold Camp, and finally there’s the post office area at the west edge of town.
Two historic attractions are accessible in Chicken. The Pedro Dredge, the historic dredge that mined Chicken Creek, is located at The Original Chicken Gold Camp, and tours through it are available for $5. (as of August 2005). The original townsite is now on the National Register of Historical Places and tours of the remaining buildings are given daily at 9 am and 1 pm starting at The Goldpanner at Mile 66.8. Lasting about an hour, the excellent tours cost only $5. per person (as of the 2003 season).
Where is Al Gore and all the global warming nuts?
Why don’t they do a live report from here and prove that global warming
is “true” by putting their tongues on a metal pole?
I double dog dare ya!!
Or are they all “Chicken?”
I’m hopin’ to ship this frizzzzin’ weather your way, folks. We’re ready for some global warming.
Okay, I’m not going to complain about how cold we’ll be next week!
I always wanted to go to Alaska-in the summer!
Newbee, Are you from Alaska?(sorry don’t know all of you yet)That was interesting facts you gave about Chicken,Alaska!
sbanchorage-Bless your heart,but no, people here won’t know how to handle what we are going to get next week even!
Population of 17 in that town. With it that cold, no wonder they have to have a Liquor Store and a Saloon next to the Chicken Mart, the Chicken Cafe and the Chicken Court House.
I was in Chicken, AK on July 4, 2000. The population of the town swelled by a factor of 10! There had to be a couple hundred of folks there. It was a hot 80F day. There was food, music, beer, and people panning for gold. Quite a site. Don’t miss Chicken when you visit AK.
Bill,
So far in Madison we’ve had 23 days with lows in the single digits or colder (as cold as -10), which includes 8 days below zero. In Grand Rapids you’ve only been in the single digits 3 times! We’ve gotten about 50″ snow so far this winter, which is right around the normal seasonal total.
Thanks,
Andrew
They must love the cold in Alaska, they still sell their T-Shirts outside and sit around the picnic table!!!!
Mike, you might want to reference some facts before you engage in childish name calling. Compensating for something? Global temps are still well above average, anecdotal evidence of a cold spell in North America just isn’t going to change that.
http://discover.itsc.uah.edu/amsutemps/execute.csh?amsutemps
Wrong Steve-o and that site is I’m sure another CNN,MSNBC,CBS you know like the ones who put an explosive near the gas tank of a pinto to make it explode because they couldn’t get it to do it by recking it in a test. Funny you don’t hear much about the Ice Caps oh thats right there growing at a massive rate now. Keep drinking the Jim Jones Juice or catch the next object passing earth to the promish land. EU is heading towards the way we use to be, because they tried to be everybody’s mother and found it doesn’t work to good so we want to go down that road ourselves to see if we can fail in a bigger way. If you like how the left has run housing, banking and SS, MC then your going to love how they take care of health and auto. Let keep screwing those how know how to make money and jobs and lift up those who fail because they don’t make good choices and don’t care because they know there will be a hand out.
Lets
Bad night for spelling sorry folks
>Global temps are still well above average, anecdotal evidence of a cold >spell in North America just isn’t going to change that
They were a heckuva lot warmer 80million years ago when all the carbon was being fixed out of the air by plants (now fossil fuels), which is originally where the carbon that Al Gore keeps complaining about came from – the atmosphere.
I suggest you take a basic science class and learn that the earth’s atmosphere has been pretty dynamic over millenia. The true causes of this have yet to fully explained, and that’s where the hard science fails. Sometimes you people make intelligent design folks looks smart – you both have the same agenda.
I’m guessing the shifting of the magnetic poles is caused by the last 200 years of civilization as well.
Sorry pal the earth’s temperture for the last 2 years has been cooling with some say as much as the last 8 since 1999.
Where do you say is average ? Now, 1978, 1933, 10,000 yrs ago, 1 million years ago. Earth has warmed and cooled many many times and it’s not about man. To think we have that much power over the Earth is just stupid. The Sun has more to do with our temperatures than anything we could dream about.
As for agenda, that’s the far left wing. They want this to be about having to force people, companies and governments to do what they want them to do all in the name of keeping political power. My agenda is to stay the heck out of our lives.
THE Earth’s climate is changing in a dramatic way, with immense danger for mankind and the natural systems that sustain it. This was the frightening message broadcast to us by environmentalists in the recent past. Here are some of their prophecies.
The facts have emerged, in recent years and months, from research into past ice ages. They imply that the threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind. (Nigel Calder, former editor of New Scientist, in International Wildlife, July 1975)
The cooling has already killed thousands of people in poor nations… If it continues, and no strong measures are taken to deal with it, the cooling will cause world famine, world chaos, and probably world war, and this could all come about by the year 2000. (Lowe Ponte, The Cooling, 1976)
I am a Michigander that temporarily transplanted himself to Alaska to teach in a Yup’ik Eskimo village (Chefornak). It gets cold up here (we had an unexpected fire drill this past week… it was -17 with windchill down to -44) but when you truly live in the cold, you dress for it. I am just as comfortable walking to a friend’s house here as in Michigan in the winter. We had frozen water lines inside the school last weekend. You learn to deal with it.
Oh, and a side note, speaking of “Chicken”… I have a flock of chickens up here in Alaska, and they live in my “arctic entry” which is like a mudroom on the front of my house. I have 2 bantam roosters and 2 hens (a RI red and a Black Sexlink). With fresh eggs up to almost $5 a dozen… its nice to get a few “on the house” plus the birds eat my table scraps (as well as regular feed)
-Thomas Dean
AKA wcbpolish
Global warming is a farce. It’s funny that Al Gore used the 1 out of the 4 scales that supported his agenda. What’s equally as funny is the other 3 scales all show a cooling trend. Go figure.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/2008/ann/ann08.html
“The year 2008 is on track to be one of the ten warmest years on record for the globe, based on the combined average of worldwide land and ocean surface temperatures, according to a preliminary analysis by NOAA’s National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. For November alone, the month is fourth warmest all-time globally, for the combined land and ocean surface temperature. The early assessment is based on records dating back to 1880.”
Those crazy liberals at NOAA are part of the conspiracy too, I guess
GASP!!!!!68 BELOW 0! The good thing about Alaska is if your freezer breaks down you can grab all your frozen foods and keep them outside in “Mother Nature’s freezer.” At that tempurature you frozen foods is certain to not spoil. On the other hand if one is to spit outside your saliva would freeze from your mouth to the ground!..hehehehehehe.