A nice warm day for a walk in Barrow Alaska. Image 3 of 3.
Feb 13, 2016 06:36:43 #
Here is one last bit of Frozen Street Photography. Same Saturday evening just at sunset, with a temperature of +4F degrees and the wind blowing from the East at 40 MPH, with a reported visibility of 1/4 mile. An hour before this they were calling if 1/8th mile visibility, and in this image it doesn't look like 1/4 mile.
The other shots were taken at relatively well protected areas within town, and this one is only a couple blocks from the tundra. Imagine what it looks like just a mile from town, on a flat tundra with nothing, absolutely nothing, that even so much as casts a shadow. 1 mile or 100 miles, it's the other side of the moon...
I couldn't recognize these two people, but they very clearly shared a thought with me. They looked at somebody out taking pictures just exactly the way I looked at someone out walking around. As I went on by we waved hello and we were all grinning big time at each other.
The other shots were taken at relatively well protected areas within town, and this one is only a couple blocks from the tundra. Imagine what it looks like just a mile from town, on a flat tundra with nothing, absolutely nothing, that even so much as casts a shadow. 1 mile or 100 miles, it's the other side of the moon...
I couldn't recognize these two people, but they very clearly shared a thought with me. They looked at somebody out taking pictures just exactly the way I looked at someone out walking around. As I went on by we waved hello and we were all grinning big time at each other.
Feb 13, 2016 12:43:33 #
So at +4, which is probably an average temperature this time of year in Barrow & wind at 40 mph, what is the wind chill. Seeing that shot makes me glad I'm in Portland where the temp was 60F earlier this week. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Feb 13, 2016 12:57:17 #
LarryN wrote:
So at +4, which is probably an average temperature this time of year in Barrow & wind at 40 mph, what is the wind chill. Seeing that shot makes me glad I'm in Portland where the temp was 60F earlier this week. :thumbup: :thumbup:
Nahhh, +4F is an unnatural heat wave that upsets too many things! Something more like -30F would be good. Then the wind would only be a nice normal 10 to 15 MPH.
The wind chill at +4 with a 40 mph wind is about -23.
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