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Springtime arrived?

These past weeks have, per usual, been like a rollercoaster weather wise. Springtime in Alaska usually brings on the best april fools, but a lot earlier, already in March. Mother Earth can play tricks with you, letting you think spring is here one day and then reassure you that life happens on this planet on her terms the next day.

Last year in early March, weather was pretty nice for a week, before it dipped down to 40 below. This winter has been extremely warm (all is relative right, I mean warm in the sense of 20-30 below instead of 40 below), and NO snow between late December and early March! We went 105 days without any new snow that stuck to the already thick snowpack that had arrived earlier.

On Saturday Tycho and I was enjoying the warm spring weather, he napping in the sun and me doing chores, like hauling water.

Then on Sunday we woke up to about 4 inches of snow.....but by the end of the day all that snow had melted.

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Alaska, Cabin Life, Tycho - The Kitty Cat and tagged Alaska rollercoaster chores snowday 2016 Cabin Life_ Spring Snow Fairbanks.

Spring adventures in Alaska

When spring comes to Alaska everyone magically forgets all about winter and the 40 below days. It's classic, anyone from any country or part of the world where temperatures drop during the wintertime experiences the exact same thing.

To me it meant I could start think about my garden, what I should plant and so on. Tycho was also very excited :) He roamed around like never before.

It also mean the semi start of the summer I guess. Mosquitos merged with BBQ and beer on the porch.

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Ann Rumbleinthearctic and filed under Alaska, Cabin Life, Garden, Nature, Tycho - The Kitty Cat and tagged 2015 Alaska Alaska cat Cabin Life_ Fairbanks.

The Past and the Present

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April 17th 2015

It's always nice to go through old pictures on the computer and realize how different the season called "spring" can turn out. Last year for instance we had a lot more snow during the wintertime and so it took a bit longer for the snow to melt away, compare to this year.

These pictures below are from late March- mid April last year, I would say we are maybe one or two weeks ahead of last year right now.

And then here below are some from right around now:

Field work will probably begin pretty soon, although not personal fieldwork for me, just the regular baseline sampling to keep it simple. I don't know if I will start going out pretty soon or not, although I am usually not a big fan of leaving for field alone in early spring. Previous years we have been seeing quite a lot of bear activity so I assume this spring wouldn't be different. We have both black bears and grizzlies in the watershed so quite a spread of bears, and of course there is a pack of wolves that are running through the area from time to time too.