its cold out there!
KOTZEBUE, ALASKA—right now, at 9:00am, its -30F. the wind is blowing 5 miles per hour from the east north east. this brings the temperature to -45F with windchill.
i knew it was pretty cold when our car’s auto-start wouldn’t start the car. we have a oil pan heater and a trickle-cell battery charger plug-in for the car, but it still wouldn’t start. i had to go outside and manually start the car.
when i drove to work, i could feel the flat imprint on one tire—felt like i was driving on a flat. when it gets so cold out, your tires ‘freeze,’ which creates a flat imprint on the tire where the rubber meets the road. the tire felt like that all the way to work, all 1.2 miles to the office.
the temperature outside is classic february weather. there’s a two week window where the temperature does not get warmer than -40F. bundle up, its cold out there!
