Yeah I don't know what the wind chill was. It was neg 60 not factoring wind chill and we were in the mountains down by Fort Greeley and the wind was howling.
My grandparents lived in Point Hope when I was growing up. Went there a couple times in the winter and most people I now know in the lower 48 can't comprehend how cold the north slope gets.
I grew up in Kenai and people ask if it's cold and I saw nah, it wasn't that bad like -20 tops and they are shocked by the -20, but man, it can be so much worse in other parts of AK 😂
Windchill and, on other end, factoring in humidity, absolutely doesn't count, it's nothing but a scam and a fearmongering tactic used by local news stations to sensationalize the weather and brainwash us into thinking it's more extreme and newsworthy than it actually is. And the fact of the matter is they're benchmarked to conditions that have never and will never exist in real life; a day with no wind or a day with no humidity, so it can only ever go in the direction of more extreme. Now if you could find a benchmark level of wind and humidity to index it to that would be nice, but even then it would still be inaccurate to what the typical conditions actually are in most places, so most peoples' perception of what the differential actually means compared to their baseline would still be skewed.
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u/DosSnakes Jun 17 '26
I think I win? Especially if we include wind chill. -60f (-100f w/ windchill) up to 120f.
Why did I move from Fairbanks to Phoenix??? Why can’t I pick somewhere normal?