georgia, where the cnn world weather center is. that's not something that we would typically see. this is the route that they would normally take, starting in anchorage, through willow to nome. but with anchorage only receiving 1/3 its normal snowfall for the season you can see why they moved the start of the race into fairbanks, about 200 miles to the north. temperatures at the moment for the entire route is in fact below freezing i should say. having a little bit of a computer difficulty there, but nonetheless, the cold snap of weather will continue for the entire race. a few snow showers in place. they're going to have great conditions for this 968-mile journey between fairbanks and nome alaska. and also just a quick update we are over the winter weather in the eastern half of the united states. i've got some good news to report. we are going to start warming up from atlanta to chicago, and minneapolis. above normal temperatures across