Thursday, December 08, 2005
Snow Eater
A chinook wind a.k.a. “Snow Eater” blew into town and did its thing the last two nights. It has removed about 12 inches of snow and brought the thermometer up to 43 degrees early this morning. Not bad for a good night’s work. The house was really rocking and rolling there for a while. At six this morning CNN gave the wind speed here at 7 mph. Wrong Up on the hillside here it was still gusting at about 30+ mph. The warm weather predicted for the rest of the week is enough to warm the cockles of my heart and the soles of my feet. The strongest wind recorded in Alaska was 159 mph. Although at Portage Valley a few years ago the wind gauge was up to 149 when it broke. The official record for Anchorage is 56 mph although I read somewhere that in 2002 gusts were recorded up to 100 mph. High wind speeds are very common in east Anchorage where we are. Not quite up to par for Mt. Washington, NH but certainly nothing to sneeze at. For the record it was 9 degrees warmer this morning than Houston and 34 degrees warmer than Portales, NM.
A chinook wind a.k.a. “Snow Eater” blew into town and did its thing the last two nights. It has removed about 12 inches of snow and brought the thermometer up to 43 degrees early this morning. Not bad for a good night’s work. The house was really rocking and rolling there for a while. At six this morning CNN gave the wind speed here at 7 mph. Wrong Up on the hillside here it was still gusting at about 30+ mph. The warm weather predicted for the rest of the week is enough to warm the cockles of my heart and the soles of my feet. The strongest wind recorded in Alaska was 159 mph. Although at Portage Valley a few years ago the wind gauge was up to 149 when it broke. The official record for Anchorage is 56 mph although I read somewhere that in 2002 gusts were recorded up to 100 mph. High wind speeds are very common in east Anchorage where we are. Not quite up to par for Mt. Washington, NH but certainly nothing to sneeze at. For the record it was 9 degrees warmer this morning than Houston and 34 degrees warmer than Portales, NM.
