Photography
Related: About this forumHere's something really beautiful...
A time lapse of the countryside around Anchorage. You might want to move here.
http://www.movoto.com/blog/opinions/youll-want-spend-winter-anchorage-watching-time-lapse/
NV Whino
(20,886 posts)But the temperature in my living room dropped 10 degrees.
handmade34
(22,758 posts)as I said, my son just went up there for the summer and it is a nice reminder that he is in a special place!
I would love to figure out a way to visit him this summer
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)I can't promise how long it will last, but May has been wonderful.
CaliforniaPeggy
(149,719 posts)Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)That made me realize that I don't have enough snow to deal with already, and the days in winter are not short enough here, and it isn't cold enough for me right where I am.
But I would really love to have the aurora occasionally. I have always wanted to see it.
I did want to move to Alaska when I was younger. I heard that the ratio of men to women was in my favor and I was hoping to find someone to spend my life with. But now I don't care about that anymore, I gave up and I got a cat.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)Where do you live? If you live in the northern plains, chances are we had a better winter than you did. In fact, there were days this past winter when it was warmer here in Anchorage than it was in Baton Rouge.
The weather is very nice here now except today it's extremely smoky because of a couple of wildfires burning nearby -- 44,000+ acre fire on the Kenai Peninsula near Kasilof and 1,500 acres burning near Tyonek and Beluga across Cook Inlet.
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)I am on the PA/OH border, and we had a brutal winter.....and yes, it was worse than what you had. I followed your posts about the winter weather with envy. This year.
But I bet that we still had more hours of light than you did.
Are you also in drought conditions up there? I always thought that it was pretty wet in Anchorage. But then again, you may have wildfires often with all the forests.
Blue_In_AK
(46,436 posts)even with the warmer temps, but this spring has been very dry. Most of the state is under red flag warnings. Wildfires are pretty common up here in the summer. In 2004 and 2005, which were also unusually warm summers, 11 million acres burned. Often they're just left to burn because of the sparse population, but this big fire down on the Peninsula is threatening homes and cabins and people are quite concerned. Not to mention that the air quality all over Southcentral is horrible. Added to the record-breaking pollen counts, people with respiratory issues are having a hard time.
And, yes, you're right about the light, but this time of year it never gets completely dark, so it's a trade-off.