09-23-2009, 04:21 AM
I'd go out on thin ice to make a prediction, but here in Alaska there is no thin ice as yet to go out on.
Last week we went up past Tok, Chicken, and the Poker Creek US-Canada border station into the Canadian Yukon as far as the confluence of the 40-Mile and Yukon rivers. A bazillion little ponds are gassing off bubbles of methane from permafrost melting down underneath but there was no ice to be seen, not a bit, anywhere except up on some retreating glaciers. Nights are cold enough now to turn the leaf colors but there has been almost no rain and zero snow so far except up on mountaintips. Sunniest and warmest summer ever, here; the change of seasons from summer to winter is at least a month delayed this year here compared to the usual pattern in years past.
Greenup (when the plants leaf out in spring) came about three and a half weeks earlier this year, too. Maybe that longer growing season assists to account for this year's new world record cabbage at the fair: 127 pounds.
Maybe all the precipitation which is not yet falling in Alaska is coming down in Puna?
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Vienna Teng in Düsseldorf, "Soon love soon."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8-mIouMbqM
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[Typo edits in red. Dang typos!]
Last week we went up past Tok, Chicken, and the Poker Creek US-Canada border station into the Canadian Yukon as far as the confluence of the 40-Mile and Yukon rivers. A bazillion little ponds are gassing off bubbles of methane from permafrost melting down underneath but there was no ice to be seen, not a bit, anywhere except up on some retreating glaciers. Nights are cold enough now to turn the leaf colors but there has been almost no rain and zero snow so far except up on mountaintips. Sunniest and warmest summer ever, here; the change of seasons from summer to winter is at least a month delayed this year here compared to the usual pattern in years past.
Greenup (when the plants leaf out in spring) came about three and a half weeks earlier this year, too. Maybe that longer growing season assists to account for this year's new world record cabbage at the fair: 127 pounds.
Maybe all the precipitation which is not yet falling in Alaska is coming down in Puna?
)'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'( )'(
Vienna Teng in Düsseldorf, "Soon love soon."
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8-mIouMbqM
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[Typo edits in red. Dang typos!]
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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Astonishing skill! This archer is a real-life Legolas and then some!
http://geekologie.com/2013/11/real-life-...rs-anc.php
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