Replying to a message of bill swisher to Bob Ackley:

 bs> On 12/11/2009 4:16 AM, Bob Ackley wrote:

 >> That's 26 degrees higher than yesterday's high temperature
 >> here in southwest Iowa.  Yesterday's low (overnight) was -7F
 >> and this morning it's warmer, -5F; that's actual
 >> temperature, not wind chill (which is below -20F).  Around
 >> here when it gets much below 40F we start looking for our
 >> jackets...

 bs> That was semi-tongue-in-cheek.  :-)

 bs> Being from Anchorage we get/got weather like that every
 bs> winter, which is  why we're here!

I thought Anchorage was warmer than that due to the proximity of
the ocean.

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