Moab vs Fairbanks

[Scott P]

I was just curious about the weather, so check this out.

Fairbanks Alaska, the coldest real city in Alaska (some tiny towns/villages are colder, such as Barrow) and in the US, so far this January:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/834173.JPG


Moab Airport so far this January:

http://www.summitpost.org/images/original/834174.JPG

[stefan]

interesting, scott, here's a graph comparing the two for the last 3 months and against their average highs/lows

[stefan]

jet stream --

http://squall.sfsu.edu/gif/jetstream_pac_init_00.gif

[rockgremlin]

MOAB gets COLD!! A common misconception is that Moab is in southern Utah, so it must be warmer. Where that is true for St. George, Moab isn't really that much warmer than SLC in the winter. 2 years ago Moab got 8" of snow in one event. :cold:

[Scott P]

MOAB gets COLD!! A common misconception is that Moab is in southern Utah, so it must be warmer.

True, but still impressive to be as cold as Fairbanks in January.

[stefan]

True, but still impressive to be as cold as Fairbanks in January.

indeed, though it makes sense that if warm air is pushing into alaska and cold air is moving down from the arctic towards moab, the two temps will approach each other in a coordinated way.

[tomertim]

Nothing on the comparison, but I used to live in Fairbanks when I was kid and let me say, its blistering cold. The day we moved back to Idaho it was -42, and that was par for the course in the early 80's.