{"id":18683,"date":"2014-01-26T19:49:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:49:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=18683"},"modified":"2014-01-26T19:49:04","modified_gmt":"2014-01-27T01:49:04","slug":"the-alaskan-winter-that-never-was","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/26\/the-alaskan-winter-that-never-was\/","title":{"rendered":"The Alaskan Winter That Never Was?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had heard it was warm in Alaska, but holy moly, I didn’t know it was THIS warm. Above is an anomaly map showing the Drunken Arctic Air<\/a> in central and eastern Canada and the US in contrast with the very (relatively) warm air over western Canada and Alaska. Remember, these are anomalies, not absolute temperatures. But still, it is warm enough in at least parts of Alaska that lakes that are normally well frozen by now are not frozen at all and may not even freeze this winter.<\/p>\n

Here are photographs taken by A.M.Mueller on January 25th 2014 in Skilak Lake, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska, and passed on for posting, with some commentary.<\/p>\n

\"Alaska<\/a>
Alaska Kenai Peninsula, January, — 60F, at least in the sun \u2026 in the 50s without sun. Super warm for weeks on end.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u201cNormally\u201d<\/a>
\u201cNormally\u201d this is covered in snow and Skilak Lake is frozen. The lake is still completely open and may not freeze at all this winter.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The clouds were quite a sight too \u2026.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"More<\/a>
More clouds and open water.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Meanwhile, it is so cold here in Minnesota that we could not go outside and play in the snow. So we brought some of the snow inside:<\/p>\n

\"P1010097\"<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had heard it was warm in Alaska, but holy moly, I didn’t know it was THIS warm. Above is an anomaly map showing the Drunken Arctic Air in central and eastern Canada and the US in contrast with the very (relatively) warm air over western Canada and Alaska. Remember, these are anomalies, not absolute … Continue reading The Alaskan Winter That Never Was?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[2791,856,148,20,97],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-4Rl","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}