Bettles News

It seems that an amateur weather station for the Alaska Department of Transportation at Jim's River, AK, measured a temperature of -79 F Saturday , one degree below the all-time U.S. low temperature record of -80, then immediately stopped transmitting .

Sunrise at Wall Lake from Lisa on ReportIt .A Took a time out to move the water cooler in the studio, which is leaking.A Snow and slick roads starting at some point Thurs.

If you think it's cold in Fairbanks, be happy you're not in Tanana or Huslia. The mercury dropped to 51 degrees below zero in both those western Interior Alaska villages on Friday as a cold air mass combined with clear skies produced the coldest temperatures of the year in that neck of the Bush.