Word: weather
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this for two days -- informed, stream-of-consciousness musings on world affairs and turkey behavior. This is Baker's second hunting tour of the week. The first was in the company of his "pal," George Bush. "We only got 17 quail," says Baker. "Mostly on account of the dry weather. The quail haven't been reproducing in their normal numbers. And of course you have to factor in that the President-elect is, how shall I put it, an erratic shot." "It was good for them to do so poorly," says Baker's wife Susan later. "They...
Even longtime Alaskans, who normally boast of basking in subzero weather, were wincing. Says Mitch Falk, manager of Aurora North Fuel in Deadhorse: "It's not too bad at 45 below, but 60 below takes it out of you." At the Corner Bar in Nenana, which is usually busy even in -25 degrees weather, no one was coming in for a cold beer...
South of the border, the cold wave brought a sudden end to unseasonably warm weather in the American West. In Great Falls, Mont., the temperature fell overnight from a high of 62 degrees to-10 degrees and then down to -34 degrees the next night. Over in Helena, the thermometer reading plummeted from 44 degrees to -6 degrees in just two hours. As far south as Valentine, Neb., a balmy high of 70 degrees turned to 0 degrees in ten hours...
Alaskans could at least take comfort from the knowledge that the weather could have been even worse. The state got nowhere close to the world's record low-temperature reading. That was a frosty -128.6 degrees F, recorded in faraway Antarctica...
...thermometer readings fall to -75 degrees, even hardy Alaskans find it tough & going. Then the frigid front blows through Canada into the American Midwest, putting an end to unseasonably hot weather...