Freeze up on Lower Kenai River

Observation by Mike Brubaker: My friend who has a cabin here in the Funny River area tells me this is the first time it has frozen like this in about twenty years! We walked out at sunset to take this picture and saw ski tracks along the river.

Rick Thoman from ACCAP writes:

From the climate perspective, from the Kenai Airport data, this is the coldest December- January since 2016-17 and the coldest November through January since 2011-12 (which was much colder than this season). 1-20-22