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Article #955RE: alt.talk.weather
From: Mira Evens
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 1996 00:00
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In article <cjrhart.15.000B5B93@yknet.yk.ca>, cjrhart@yknet.yk.ca says... > >Unfortunately, many localities with narrow band width cannot afford the luxury >of including all the newsgroup. In the Yukon, where we have some amazing >weather, they have decided to exclude all "alt." newsgroups, so some locations >will not be able to make contributions to alt.talk.weather > >If you're interested, the Yukon is currently in the middle of a long and harsh >cold snap. Its been -40�C for more than two weeks and it will continue at >least until Friday. Locally temps have plumetted to less than -50�C. This is >unusual, mainly in duration, and rivals cold snaps of 1969 and 1941. Even the >old timers are shaking their heads. Fortunately vehicles and systems work >better now than they did during the olden days. > >An effect of the extreme cold is very dense Ice Fog, largely created by >crystal vapours of vehicle exhaust. Its so dense some days that the 737's >from Vancouver don't have enough visual to land. What exactly is Ice Fog? We keep hearing about it on the news but I have no idea what it looks like.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII X-Google-Thread: 100886,20d7318ef0a1dd34 X-Google-Attributes: gid100886,public From: geme@uniserve.com (Mira Evens) Subject: RE: alt.talk.weather Date: 1996/01/25 Message-ID: <4e8gnh$9th@atlas.uniserve.com> X-Deja-AN: 137057602 distribution: world references: <cjrhart.15.000B5B93@yknet.yk.ca> organization: UNIServe Online mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: bc.weather