This week from science writer Ned Rozell: Enduring frigid wind chills in Interior Alaska and keeping permafrost beers from freezing
A National Park Service climate-observing station sits in Howard Pass, a broad crossing of the Brooks Range between Alaska’s North Slope and the Noatak River drainage.
Howard Pass is a wind funnel through the western Brooks Range about 100 miles north of the villages of Ambler and Kobuk. In other cold-related news, John Gaedeke’s beer is somehow remaining liquid outside his lodge at Iniakuk Lake in the Brooks Range, where it was 21 below on a recent morning.
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