Contrary to The Game of Thrones books, winter here comes quickly. And as it was our first winter we were both excited to see the freeze up process and scared to experience the cold. But hey, we are on an adventure here and as they say 无可奈何!
Even though the weather reached some bitter cold temperatures, we were both surprised to see how long it took to freeze up. I think two factors played a role. First, the polar ice caps melted to a record low in 2012, in fact it melted 297,000 square miles more than the previous record seen in 2007. There are few places that are more affected by climate change than the arctic area. And second, the water in this area has strong and fast moving currents. This tends to break up the ice. The pictures below show what this looks like.
This is a picture of Kotzebue after the freeze up courtesy of kotzpdweb.tripod.com
You can compare this to the photo of Kotzebue in the summer posted earlier.
As you can see, we get to experience some incredible changes!
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