A very strange winter thaw
![January thaw in Nome](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-01-27-january-melt-iPhone-1-1216px-1200x900.jpg)
The streets looked like springtime, and the air was so warm – by Alaskan standards, at least – it might have been mistaken for summer. But the date wasn’t in May or June; it was late January. On January 27th, Nome broke a high temperature record not just for the day, but for the winter […]