Heading to Southeast Alaska

Taking Evening flight from Fairbanks, 8:40pm still full of daylight! I am going to Southeast communities next 9 days where are Ketchikan, Hollis, Thorn Bay, Coffman Cove, Naukati, Craig, Kasaan, Petersburg, Juneau, Sitka…

Beautiful evening Denali (Mt. McKinley) above cloud with thick atmosphere

frost at Petersburg

Science teacher Vic send me great winter frost record at Petersburg, SE Alaska!

Now we know they freeze little bit!

Petersburg High School 7th Grade Astronomy
Date Depth of freezing Air Temp F Snow Depth Snow Depth Snow Depth Snow Depth Avg
Degree Celcus cm cm cm cm
1/13/12              0 cm 5 4 3 4 3.7
1/23/12 8 cm 31 30 28 30 29.3
1/27/12 13 cm 34 36 49 38 41.0
2/3/12 13 cm 38 9 17 10 12.0
2/10/12 0 cm 45 3.5 2 2 2.5
2/16/12 0 cm 34 4 7 9 6.7
3/2/12 2 cm 36 12 15.5 13 13.5
3/9/12 0 cm 34 7 8 12 9.0
3/16/12 0 cm 43 5.5 12 15 10.8