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 Welcome to Green-Up in Interior Alaska everyone.  With that said, I'm here to write about the rapid melt that is happening and causing quite a bit of commotion through the Interior region. First to speak of on this is what rapid melt causes.  In the Interior, we had a record amount of snow.  The highest point on the measure was 100" of snow.  That's three full feet over your average person and still enough snow to bury Shaq.   Even in a normal scenario, it is not uncommon to get 3-5 feet of snow a year.  All this snow has to go somewhere in the spring and summer. When rapid heat moves in afterwards, this snow melts, causing a trickling effect.  I use those words in that place because if you were to go up to the high points, and it's the end of May right now, you would see big blogs of snow with trickling streams of water coming from underneath it.  These trickling streams merge, then merge again, and eventually dump into the river, caus...

Well ladies and gentlemen, it is officially time for break-up in Interior Alaska.  The first signs have happened.   The Chena River in town is normally the first to break up, with some spots thawing rapidly in late winter due to some industrial zones.  This would be those places along Phillips Field Road and River Road between Peger Ave. and the Downtown Bridges. This year, the Chena River has finally broken up and a massive amount of ice is flowing down river.  I was just out there fishing with Samantha yesterday and we can attest to this.  We were at the Nordale Bridge and if the river wasn't forced into fast water channels it was breaking the ice apart and carrying it down river. In other Break-Up news, the Nenana Ice Classic is still on, despite the tripod falling.  Every year, a tripod is put out on the ice of the Tanana River with a cable hooked to a stop clock.  When the cable pulls, the clock stops. There's a large raffle/gambling event in...