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The Milepost may be the most complete travel guide for Alaska and the Canadian Northwest.  Buy it here.  Click the image for more information.

Here are some other Alaska travel books that you may find helpful:

Bear Attacks -- Bears are part of what makes Alaska fishing interesting.  Here's how to stay on good terms with the bruin.

Alaska Wear -- Tony Russ extensively covers what you will need to wear in Alaska to stay warm and dry and bug free.

Alaska: A Complete Guide to the Last Frontier -- Explore Alaska off the beaten path

Best Places Alaska -- What are the BEST places in Alaska: restaurants, lodging and adventure

We get an incredible amount of daylight during the summer months here in Delta.  In fact, during the longest days of June, it never really gets dark.  That situation is reversed in December, when there are very, very few hours of light.  

Delta is famous around Interior Alaska for the wind.  Most days there is at least a gentle breeze, and occasionally it feels like a lite hurricane around here.

Interior Alaska is not a rainy place at all, although most of our precipitation does fall during July, August and September.  Winter months are driest.

Speaking of winter it does get chilly here at times, but like everywhere else, you just learn to live with it rather than fight it.  Temperatures below zero are the norm for many days during the winter months, and many thermometers aren't helpful here because they read only to -20F.  A good Delta thermometer ought to reach at least -70F, although thankfully, temperatures below -50F rarely last long.

Winter does have some spectacular parts...like brilliant displays of Northern Lights (aurora borealis).

Some Alaskans even prefer winter to summer....snow sports are very popular here.

What's the weather like now in Delta?  Here's the report:

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