my favorite sign along the Richardson highway
Monthly Archives: October 2012
Winter!! along the Richardson
Icicle along the Keystone Canyon
Summit Lake had more than 20cm of ice!
Stormy Rainbow Ridge
Frost tube at Valdez middle
full moon light Valdez harbor
today is full moon night!! it was easy to drive at night!
Heading to Valdez
Foggy in town
Fairbanks snow depth below average for October!!
Little snow means more ground freezing!! frost tube reaches 21cm at Birch Hill today. Temperature rises little bit in this weekend by the Chinook. Chinook Arch makes beautiful sunset!
Denali!
the National Weather Service said 4.2 inches of snow had fallen at Fairbanks International Airport. That compares to just 2.4 inches at the same time last year. The normal snowfall through that date is 9.2 inches.
Snow depths around Fairbanks range from 2 to 4 inches.
The average snow depth in Fairbanks on Oct. 22 for the past 30 years is just more than 3 inches. During that same time, the snow depth at the airport on Oct. 22 has ranged from as much as 10 inches in 1992 to just a trace or none in five of those 30 years.
The average monthly snowfall in October, which is typically the second-snowiest month of the winter, is 10.8 inches.
Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Fairbanks snow depth below average for October
Chachani south facing permafrost
Permafrost is presence only higher than 5350m at south facing slopes with higher albedo materials and maybe higher at north facing slopes! This is Southern Hemisphere that why south facing colder!!