Weather of Fairbanks.

 The weather in the Fairbanks area should be siginificantly nicer than the Hoosier malaise we're used to.  Located in the interior of the state, Fairbanks is sheltered from the wettest ocean weather by mountains to the west, and from the coldest arctic weather by mountains from the north.  Tending to be dry, it still gets frigid in the winter, and can get quite warm in the summer, though is usually not very muggy..

And all of that is hearsay, of course...  We'll see if it bears out.

Here's a more qualified discussion on the web.

Well, it's drier.

 The weather here has been, they tell us, atypical for Fairbanks in August.  Normally it's cold and rainy, in preparation for a brief Indian summer in September and then the onset of real cold.

We have had some colder weather (down into the lower forties), but not much of the rain.  It was't until this week that we had any at all, and it's been this frankly disgusting sort of occasional, misty drizzle which still somehow manages to wetten the ground with only occasional eruptions into recognizeable as raindrops.

Mainly, about half our first few weeks was spent coughing on forest fire smoke, and most after the first weeks spent with a succession of rain clouds and storm fronts hanging above us or passing by and not bothering to let loose with anything.

Still, the drier air is certainly an improvement from Indiana, and when the sun's out and not hidden behind smoke, the sky is beautiful and the air crisp and refreshing.

Lookin' Out My Back Door

 The flowers here are huge, beautiful, and very prolific during the summer.  Even the weeds are pretty to look at.  Too, in the burrough part of Fairbanks there are plenty of trees, and our complex is bounded by a small woods full of tall, skinny evergreens and tall, skiny birch trees, mostly.  

There aren't a lot of birds around rown, as you might expect, but there are chikadees, juncos, and ravens numerous enough that one might think them pigeons with sore throats, and occasionally you can hear woodpeckers in the distance..

There aren't a lot of small rodents around here either, but we've seen occasional chipmunks and some very small squirrels.  There are also mice, and good number of rabbits.

Hopefully once we get to spend a little more time in the country, as it were, we'll get to experience some more of the wildlife of the area.