Mind-boggling COLD!

Mind-boggling, historic cold has gripped the Last Frontier in recent weeks. Nome, Galena, and Bettles - in Alaska’s west and west interior - are all likely to have their coldest Januarys on record the National Weather Service reported today.  It will likely be the 5th coldest January on record in Fairbanks, with a hard-to-imagine average temperature of -26.7. Anchorage is likely to log its 4th coldest January.
Consider some of the following chilling facts:
* Using satellite data, the University of Wisconsin detected surface temperatures as cold as -73 below zero around the town of Arctic Village in northeast Alaska
* Low temperatures in the 60 to 65 below zero range have chilled the towns of Galena, Fort Yukon and Huslia since last Friday; the coldest recorded temperature was -65 at both Ft. Yukon and Galena
* Fairbanks hit -50 on January 28, and -51 on January 29, the first -50 degree readings there since 2006
* Fairbanks dropped to 40 below on 16 different days during January, the greatest number since 1971
* The average low in Ft. Yukon, 145 miles northeast of Fairbanks, has been -35