Letters to the Editor

Poem: Nothing Wrong With the Weather This Year: An Associated Press Headline

“Bureau refutes weather charge; is not unusual”

- Anchorage Daily Times, Aug. 18, 1926

Those who have been

asking what’s wrong

with the weather this

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year are not likely to

have their curiosity

satisfied by the weather

bureau. In the first place

the scientists there say

there is scarcely a more

abused expression in

the language than the

term “unusual weather.”

Weather always

is doing unusual things,

they say, and if it wasn’t,

it wouldn’t be usual.

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Rick Sinnott

Chugiak

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Rick Sinnott

Rick Sinnott is a former Alaska Department of Fish and Game wildlife biologist. Email him: rickjsinnott@gmail.com

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