Spring reveals itself slowly in Barrow, Alaska, the northernmost city in the United States. In mid-April, the sun sets around 11 p.m., but the temperatures are often in single digits.
But it might not be the cold that surprises a visitor as much as the wind. It blows steadily across town, carrying dry snow and drifting against anything in its path, causing tarps to flap and umiaq covers to billow.
Just northeast of town, on the road that leads to the high school football stadium and beyond toward Point Barrow, the wind blows even stronger and keeps road grading crews busy scraping drifts aside.
In this video, take a look around Barrow in the springtime breeze.