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Totally Real Fairbanks Weather - An Experiment


Yes, totally real and I totally did not increase temperature by 30 F for experimentation purposes. And edited rainfall values and stuff. Totally Real Fairbanks has an extreme continential mediterranean-influenced climate (Koppen Dsa) with very hot summers and cold winters. It receives a lot of its rain during early and mid fall, when the monsoon season peaks (before winter-influenced precipitation instead takes ahold). However, it still receives a fair bit of precipitation during winter and spring - especially during the cold and moderately snowy winters. Most of summer is very hot and very dry with highs consistently topping 100 degrees with very little rainfall until the monsoon.

These extreme temperature variations are partly also because of high latitude, resulting in wild variance on the amount of sunlight the city receives, depending on the season. This means that the city receives over 500 hours of sunlight during the hot and sunny summers, but only about 30 in December, when there is very little daylight and the sun goes down below the horizon completely for a short bit.

And now for the totally existing lake, which is part of the reason why Septembers get a lot of precipitation (the lake is warmest at that point, allowing for increased cloud formation and storms).

Verkhoyansk but Amplified
Ok I like weather boxes

Totally Real Fairbanks Weather - An Experiment
 Midtown High School (Atlanta)

Chess

Pinski's 6...Bb4
GM Larry Kaufman wrote in 2004 that the Müller–Schulze Gambit is by 4...Nxe5 5.d4 Nc6 6.d5 Bb4 7.dxc6 Nxe4 8.Qd4 Qe7, which he attributes to the Polish IM Jan Pinski. In 2003, Pinski analyzed 9.Qxg7 (There is also the defensive resource 9.Be3 and after 9...0-0 10.Bd3 Nxc3 11.bxc3 Bd6 12.cxb7 Bxb7 13.0-0 White has equalized the material but Black has more open lines and can take control quicker being a tempo up.) 9...Nxc3+ 10.Be3 Nd5+ 11.c3 Rf8 12.cxb4 Nxe3 13.fxe3 Qxb4+, concluding "Black is very close to winning". There is also an interesting transposition to the Four Knights Game, Scotch Variation, starting with 6. d5 Bb4 7. dxc6 bxc6.