Huslia News

Those who live in the northernmost parts of Alaska are used to coping with the cold.A But even they have their limits.A In Huslia on Monday, when it warmed up to -45 degrees, people said it felt great.A But to put things in perspective, temperatures in the last week have ranged between 60 to 70 below.

Temperatures fall to 50 below in Fairbanks; small air carriers cancel flights Daily News-Miner [Fairbanks AK], by Dorothy Chomicz FAIRBANKS - Winter continued to show her love of Interior Alaska by bestowing yet another cold snap on its beleaguered residents this weekend.

George Attla was an unlikely candidate to become an Alaska mushing legend. The Athabascan from the small village of Huslia spent much of his youth in a sanitarium after contracting tuberculosis, which fused one of his legs and permanently affected his ability to walk.

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.