Ron sent me this story.
Fun weather fact for the record books: Alaska hit its all-time lowest recorded wind chill on Friday.
At 3:39 p.m., sensors at Howard Pass in the Brooks Range picked up a wind chill of minus 97 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s calculated from a recorded temperature of minus 42 degrees and a sustained northern wind of 71 mph. A gust also was recorded at 78 mph.
And, obviously, this is a result of AGW. Yannow, what with the North Pole getting warmer and pushing all the cold weather south. Wait a minute! I thought Alaska was getting warmer what with AGW and all that stuff. Didn’t you hear Flipper talking about AGW being a weapon of mass destruction over the weekend? He lied about Viet Nam and now he’s either lying about AGW or he’s dumber than dirt. I’ll take door number 2 Monty.
“Mother Nature has a cold heart this Valentine’s Day,” the National Weather Service mused on its Facebook page.
Sounds like one of my old girlfriends
The Howard Pass wind chill marks a one-degree drop from the previous record, marked in Prudhoe Bay/Arco on Jan. 28, 1989. One key difference between the two sites: Howard Pass is uninhabited, while people were actually living at Prudhoe Bay.
If people were living at Howard Pass, the new record would be considered even more significant, said Matthew Clay, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage.
Expecting dickheads to blame this on AGW in one, two, three…