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steve2470

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Mon Oct 26, 2020, 08:43 AM Oct 2020

bit of weather trivia: Barrow, Alaska (since 2016) is now Utqiagvik, Alaska

listed on this UK weather site as Barrow: https://www.weatheronline.co.uk/weather/maps/current?ART=karte&TYP=wetter&LANG=en&UP=0&WMO=70026&CONT=namk&NOREGION=1&CEL=F&TIME=std&LEVEL=140&R=310

I have been to Utqiagvik twice, back in the 1980's when it was called Barrow. Truly arctic climate, on the shores of the Arctic Ocean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utqiagvik,_Alaska

Referred to as "Barrow" beginning in 1901, the city voted to restore its old Iñupiat name, Utqiaġvik, in 2016.
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bit of weather trivia: Barrow, Alaska (since 2016) is now Utqiagvik, Alaska (Original Post) steve2470 Oct 2020 OP
Cool, thank you uppityperson Oct 2020 #1
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