Coleene,

>It certainly is Tom.  I did a Weather.com search for weather in your area
>and here in central lower Michigan we have been consistantly 20 to 25
>degrees colder than in your area since the end of December.  Most days
>during January we have barely gotten out of the teens!  The bees did fly a
>couple days before Christmas, however!
>
This points up a big misunderstanding of Alaskan winters.   Here in
coastal Alaska we do generally have warmer weather than the northern
interior of the lower 48.   Cold has never been a big problem in this
area, the length of the winter has been much harder to deal with.
Interior Alaska does get COLD, but it is not normally serious on the coast.

Tom Elliott
Chugiak, AK

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