Robomatic, in Anchorage almost 600 air miles from (5 hours by ferry and 800pllus by road after that) routinely has lower temps than we do in southeast; we haven't come close to zeroF yet- our temperatures typically hover around mid20s for a low- but it's supposed to get colder here next week.

In November we got almost 60 inches of snow- second to the most record in that month. I think the record must have been set in 2006, the year a meteorologist friend of mine died. Don did not like snow but when he died in his sleep on November 2, it was like he said: You like snow? Watch this....

It started snowing the next day.