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Monday, December 28, 2009

Time for me to be smug

"A strong inversion is developing over Fairbanks again, with a 20-degree temperature differential over an elevation gain of 300 feet..."

I live at about 700 feet, and the town is about 400, so I'll be about 20 F degrees warmer than town. Ner, ner, ner.

As long as we're on the topic, the Tanana River, leaving Fairbanks, flows another 100-150 some odd miles before it hits the Yukon, which then travels another 1000 or so miles before hitting the ocean. All that over an elevation drop of just 400 feet. Isn't that amazing?

And... behbeh elephant cuddling his human caretaker! Ahhhh!!! I want to cuddle one!

7 comments:

Debs said...

That's one strong inversion and good to hear that it's to your benefit! Hope you had a great Christmas, btw ;-)

Anonymous said...

interesting to hear about the inversion. So does that mean that you're out of the woodsmoke/general pollution too? I remember a while back you wrote about the inversion trapping smoke and bad air down low.

Rena said...

Oops, above comment was me. Script-blocker stepped in and disabled the name textbox.
Oh, and nice pictures of all the animals and it's good to see Dan!

Arvay said...

Yup. I am above the schpoo. :) Poor Dan, at 100 feet from the river, is right in a soup of cold and ice fog. But it's a beautiful cabin, and without me, it's very, very, very clean. :)

Debs said...

Your cabin always looks very clean and well kept to me!

Arvay said...

Dan is *very* clean, though. :)

mdr said...

You are very clean and also organized too