Cold weather slows winter break up

Unusually cold temperatures across the interior this week are slowing break up. The National Weather Service reported a low of four below zero Tuesday morning at Eagle, where longtime resident John Borg keeps an eye on the Yukon River.
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”With temperatures like we have now, there isn’t much happening,” Borg said.
Records show a gradual trend over the last hundred plus years toward earlier break ups at Eagle. Last year the ice went out on April 26th, one of the earliest