Kids and teacher seem to have quite a good sense of humor. *promote

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According to weather history, Anchorage (the closest I could find) was above freezing until late into November.

i live near Anchorage, a town called Wasilla, you may know this as where loons come from.

Yes, a crazy nice nearly snowfree winter is being had. Roads have been fantastic except for maybe 2 days so far. We had maybe 4-5 inches of snow in our yard which, weeks ago, compressed down on some warmer/melty days and then re-froze into a very hard ice pack of just an inch or two thick across the entire yard. Enough to bust your ass for sure.

I bet the snow plowers and snow machiners are lamenting.

I was being a bit of a dick to the Vid because there was no real time reference in it, Since you do live there What would be the normal December weather be?

We usually have a few feet of snow at least, and have had to call plowers to get our driveway plowed a few times. We usually have below zero weather on many occasions (none so far?) Alaska will become the new Seattle maybe.

Since we are getting homegrown weather reports, @deathcow, can you tell me if this has ever happened before? This late into December with only a few inches of snow for the whole season?

I remember once since 1977 where (I recall) the snow volume was similar. But not combined with such mild temps.

Your old.

I was even sentient in 77

My guess is im older then the both of you.

Last two winters in Finland have been pretty black. Freezing in the night in to solid ice, melting during the day. There was a tiny sliver of cold air that arrived just days before christmas so it's white now, expecting to melt away before new year. Makes cycling pretty much impossible, they haul gravel on to the pavements, it falls thru the melting ice only to get trapped in it when the night comes and you got clear, solid sheet of ice again in the morning. I have never seen so much gravel in the streets in the spring as i did last year. Good news is that -20C only happens for two, three week tops.