Didn't watch any of it, but my FB and Twitter feeds were pretty entertaining.

 

Are you saying that January has been too warm for good running ....... in Alaska ???

 

I know a few folks who might get a kick out of that!  

Yep. We had a week or so (seemed like an eternity) of 40+F degrees, reaching 50F in some places. This melted snow and created water on top of ice = 0 traction for feet or cars. The ice got soft enough that cleats could dig in but still not fun running.

Warm weather in winter is not good since so much of our fun and economy depends on cold weather and snow - skiing, mushing, snow machining, etc. If the rivers and/or lakes aren't frozen many events can't take place. This past Tues it was warm enough that there was some mud on trails, but on Wed started freezing and was probably the first decent run in awhile. Snow/ice conditions on Saturday were great - with ice cleats.  Right now it's looking like a lot of the races will probably be able to go on as planned. Yukon Quest had to change start area for this past weekend. For consecutive races, we have Iditasport, Susitna 100 (and Iron dog is same weekend, I think), Iditarod Trail Invitational, and finally the Iditarod. Races should be over by end of March. There's some other races scattered in there, but several sled dog races in December were cancelled.

Take a look at the jet stream over the past month or so. When it heads south, the south gets cold and north gets warm. This is not the first time it's happened.

We've had green grass while FL road signs are covered with snow. Not good when woody plants start breaking bud, since there's likely to be more 0F temperatures before summer.

Wait, what? The superbowl was THIS weekend???  I couldn't care less.