October 1, heading south
Leaving Tok in the morning for parts south. Light snow falling on the night of September 30th. Planning to do the Cassiar Highway. Anyone else heading down the road right now? Bob
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October 1, is about the start of the serious cold weather in the Interior of Alaska. The 13 years we lived in Nenana, we could count on the first sticking snow of winter on or about October 5. From then to Christmas was some serious winter weather, then the January Thaw, and then till spring time, the bottom fell out of the thermometers.
Sue, you may have also been seeing some planned military rotation of troops heading to a new duty station in the lower 48. New troops coming in and the ones that have been there for their year or two tour are heading out. Some of these folks would be RV drivers I am sure.
But more than likely, any Alaska resident that doesn't want to experience the super cold of the Interior, had best be gone south by October 1, most years.
Sue, you may have also been seeing some planned military rotation of troops heading to a new duty station in the lower 48. New troops coming in and the ones that have been there for their year or two tour are heading out. Some of these folks would be RV drivers I am sure.
But more than likely, any Alaska resident that doesn't want to experience the super cold of the Interior, had best be gone south by October 1, most years.
