S.E. Alaska Regional Weather Observation Journals - January, 2019

The Lunar calendar for the 31 days of January, 2019. (Images only in this entry. Uploaded for printing - record-keeping/documentation, reference, etc.)

“Darkness is not a symbol of negativity, but the state, where we can concentrate on the real light of life.” - Samar Sudha  Observation: The heaviest snowfall for the year, so far, took place throughout the hours of last night and on through the afternoon of Sunday, the 20th of January, 2019 (today). A bright afternoon despite the cloud cover and snow. The light was a brilliant white. It was a cold day with hints of warmer temperatures throughout the environment... Nothing interesting or notable for observation, except the expressions of light and dark, which January contains, and is representative of, in its placement on the 12-month calendar...  Sunset: 3:55 pm, Sunday, January 20th, 2019 Moment Of Darkness: On January 20th, 2019, begins in the 54th minute of Four O’Clock, (4:54) sometime between the minutes of 4:56 and 4:57 is the moment of darkness, and at 5:03 it is “dark” out... Sunrise: 8:08 am, Monday, January 21st, 2019 4:00 pm 32 F, Precipitation

We are seeing the last of the scenic and sheet-like, frozen, holiday scenes. The cloud cover is low, the grain and moisture of the fog is dense through the atmosphere , meeting the earthbound sphere in which communities dwell . The snow falls at a slant . E n e rg y and picturesque scenes are illustrated throughout all of Alaska, especially with seasonal events. Today, the world reflects the work of an allegorical genre; paintings of winter, long-distance treks through nature. In seclusion, the wild is discovered as an enveloping force in creation. From where I stand, I can see the falling of the Winter Solstice’s dance through the spiraling winds as it is transformed into the portrayal of the season approaching it’s close... (Winter Solstice, for 2018, was at 1:23 pm, Friday, December 21st) . One thing which I make a mental note of, as I glance out the window, is the trees  as they emphasize  🌲 🌲 🌲    that there is a balance   to the currents of snow, wind and air, comb

Friday, January 18th, 2019, 3:43 pm, S.E. Alaska...  Snowfall in the late afternoon as it becomes evening ~ At 3:43 pm I looked out to observe late winter. The surroundings, from my view, appeared to have 1 inch of snow on the ground. Cold, Silent ... the trees and surroundings were very still, empty, anti-social. The forest was a beautiful image to capture, with the sun shining through the trees, yet only from beyond the heavy cloud cover... it was a grey scene that included a faded chromium light. The forest yielded a dying and hidden ambience, low-lying, buried accross the first 2 inch layer of earth, nearly written off as nonexistent... still, somehow reaching the city’s boundaries, barely perceivable, it touched the edges of the atmosphere/environment.  3 pm: 30 degrees F, 48% precipitation, 94% humidity, 3 mph, hi/lo - 32/30, snow 5 pm: 30 degrees F, 67% precipitation, 96% humidity, 4 mph, hi/lo - 32/30, sleet   6 pm: 30 degrees F, 78% precipitation, 96%, humidit

The moon, high above my head, scintillates against the heavy darkness, interjecting.  8:00 pm: 29 degrees F 9:00 pm: 28 degrees F  10:00 pm: 28 degrees F  The obvious  temperature  drop  was at around 10 pm.  It was in the forecast  by 11 pm,  only  1   degree  colder...   12:00 am: 27 degrees F  1:00 am: 27 degrees F  A sky full of sun for the  daylight hours  of  Thursday,  January 17th ...  Absent were  the mists,  snowfalls, and  drifting sweeps of aerosol clouds.  The daylight hours held a  balance...  “revolution”,  as if on a dial . 🕕

Most years, as is the nature of a 365-day period, in any city, state or country, there are natural occurances in the weather which appear to be patterns... in history the basic patterns of weather are obvious in the climate during the changing seasons (when summer turns to fall the temperature drops, and when fall turns to winter the temperature is not just “cool”, it can be accurately defined as “cold”, or “freezing”...). These are obvious changes which are simply facts about the year. In history, farther back on the timeline, there has been unique weather patterns; the decline or rise in temperature, which is consecutive, for a certain amount of years (in some cases, ice ages or global warming). In modern decades the height and damage of storms has been noted - in recent years  there has been record-breaking earthquakes and tectonic movements, and some volcanic eruptions. In my local area, I have always caught on to yearly trends in weather which either become a two, three, or

A mask of fog throughout the day. Cool/cold temp (currently 30 degrees F.), Humidity is at 99%, And can be detected in the air. Precipitation is 0% , and wind is 0 mph, it’s dark out, cloudy, 34/27 degrees is the recorded hi-lo temp in the forecast. This afternoon the sun was bright, and the dawn of summer was clear, outspoken in the near-yet-distant future. As the sun fell behind the mountains, the sky expressed pastel blends of orange to yellow, then blue, deepening into the shades of the ocean , then an enchanting purple, with   veins of black ,   converting the sky to the darkness of   night 🌙. The moon is illuminated to 77.6%,   waxing gibbous . The moon had risen at 1:15 pm , and will set at 4:02 am.