Wild Weather Stats from Yesterday

I mentioned yesterday how cold some areas of the U.S. were. For folks living in the Midwest who wanted to escape the warmth, you could have went up to the middle of Alaska. Say what? Yep, that's right. Amazingly, Fairbanks, Alaska saw a high temperature about 50 degrees warmer than the high temperatures in places like Chicago, Illinois and Columbus, Ohio. Normally, high temperatures this time of the year in Fairbanks are a degree below zero, but it was 52 there yesterday, but only 3 in Chicago! Pretty Amazing. Nature likes to balance things out, so when it is very cold somewhere, there will be anomalous warmth somewhere else to compensate.