Day: January 30, 2006

Alaska

I think I’ll take the cold. . .

With Augustine currently in a state of near constant ash eruption I think I am willing to live the cold from the high pressure system pushing out of Siberia. It is keeping the high wind pattern moving to the South-East, which means that, for now, we are spared any ashfall here in Anchorage.

Of course, just like any other weather pattern here, this is subject to change without notice. I just hope that if the low trying to move in from the South-West actually manages to push its way into South-Central that it brings enough moisture that the ashfall is contained in snow.

Black snow may be ugly, and heavy, but it doesn’t drift through all the cracks in the windows and doors and settle in your machinery.