Archive for: November, 2009

Phenom Watch – Stephen Strasburg

Phenom Watch – Stephen Strasburg

With temperatures hovering near zero across the state, local sports fans flocking to the nearest hockey arena, or camping in front of the television to watch football, there probably aren’t too many Alaskan sports minds thinking about baseball.
But here’s your opportunity.
Saturday morning at 10:30, you can log into the Major League Baseball website and catch [...]

Leonid Meteor Shower Tempts (Very) Few Into the Cold

Leonid Meteor Shower Tempts (Very) Few Into the Cold

If you’ve bothered to head out into the night to watch a meteor shower, you probably didn’t do it in Alaska.
That’s because the three conditions that are required to see a meteor shower – clear skies, darkness and being awake and outside between midnight and dawn can  mean only one thing in Alaska: cold.
In other [...]

Better Late, But Never Would Be OK, Too

Better Late, But Never Would Be OK, Too

I sat at lunch yesterday and watched the snow blow by the window of the restaurant. It was the first time this fall that snow of any consequence fell during the day, and here it was the eleventh of November.  While nobody was complaining too loudly – after all, snow in November is really nothing [...]

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