On July 4, all-time high temperature records were set in Kenai, Palmer, King Salmon, and Anchorage International Airport. Alaska faces record-breaking heat 03:06. The frigid temperature rivalled the average winter temperatures found on the surface of Mars. Anchorage also saw a record high minimum temperature for the day. Alaska Weather Myths. Folks touting claims of temperature records are now wisely using the key word "possible". The greatest seasonal temperature contrast is found in the central and eastern portion of the continental interior. Temperature Records Fall Across Alaska. - Alan Caruba, Temperatures warmer than today during most of the past 10,000 years. Klawock, a town in southeastern Alaska, reached 70 F on March 19 -- the earliest any spot in the state has hit that high. Anchorage, Alaska has a subarctic climate with the code Dfc according to the Köppen climate classification due to its short, cool summers. Three other Alaska locations, Kenai, Palmer and King Salmon, set or tied all-time high temperature records. How many perverts will you allow in your advertisement. Highest Number Consecutive Days/Minimum Temperature Below Zero. It’s a big problem with vehicle exhaust on roadways. Read our full mailing list consent terms here. The damage being caused is unprecedented: 103 people were killed in wildfires last year in California, one of the places best prepared, best equipped to fight such blazes in the world, Entire towns have been razed. Alaska could experience record high temperatures in the coming days as a massive heat dome parks over the region, sending temperatures higher than have ever been recorded in the state. Sunday’s high temperature was minus 47 degrees. Want an ad-free experience?Subscribe to Independent Premium. NOW! Temperatures will finally start to moderate some into the weekend, recovering towards more seasonable norms to ring in the new year. Despite the next-level cold, 2019 is still almost certain to go down in the books as the state’s warmest year on record. Create a commenting name to join the debate, There are no Independent Premium comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts, There are no comments yet - be the first to add your thoughts. You can jump to a separate table for each region of the state: Southeast, South - Central, Southwest, Interior and Far North Alaska. The ice fog is most common near population centres. #3 on the list : http://sidc.be/silso/spotless. This Alaska heat wave will last into early this week. ", Out west in Somerset, floods in 2013 led to entire villages being cut off and isolated for weeks, "In summer 2012, intense rain flooded over 8000 properties. Maximum temperature from June 18 … It has raised our emotions, perception and personalised the effects and hazards of climate change. The temperature has soared as high as 90 degrees, records have fallen and air conditioners are working overtime -- but the end of the Alaska heat dome is in sight. This morning’s weather forecast is in a new format. Three other Alaska locations, Kenai, Palmer and King Salmon, set or tied all-time high temperature records. It could be a long winter. I receive no funding from any company, corporation, or organization. I have no idea what you are talking about. Alaska's largest city, Anchorage, has already smashed its all-time record high. Parts of the state have had their earliest 70-degree readings on record. After a record cold spring, all-time high temperature records were broken in Alaska during the past few days as a "heat dome" took control. In Australia, where a brutal drought persisted for months last year, farmers have suffered from mental health problems because of the threat to their livelihood, Even dedicated climate skeptic Jeremy Clarkson has come to recognise the threat of climate change after visiting the Tonle Sap lake system in Cambodia. Thanks, Robert, Anyone who says we’re enduring “unprecedented global warming” is lying or woefully misinformed. And at minus 56 degrees this morning, the quiet community of roughly a dozen year-round residents set a daily record low. Across Alaska, the frequency of ultra-cold nights has been dwindling in recent years. NOTE: These records were compiled using unofficial climate data obtained from the National Weather Service Anchorage forecast office. And yet it still didn’t even claim a local daily record, the village northwest of Fairbanks had dropped to minus 67 degrees on December 27, 1954. The actual temperature was 89.1, but it is the weather service’s practice to round to the nearest whole number. Alaska's mean annual temperatures range from the low 40s under the maritime influence in the south to 10 degrees Fahrenheit (° F) along the arctic slope north of the Brooks Mountain Range. Allakaket did hit minus 60 this morning, the state’s coldest observed temperature during this Arctic outbreak. That’s the coldest December temperature on record ever in Bettles, tied with Dec 15, 1946. Alaska cold snap: Temperatures tumble to minus-65, but warmest-year record still on track Matthew Cappucci 12/28/2019 Hospitalizations, cases soar amid busy travel week UPDATE! The temperature in Bettles, Alaska, dropped to -60°F on Friday (Dec 27). An increase in the severity and distribution of press images, reports and media coverage across the nation has localised the issue. The ads on this site verged on the pornagraphic. That’s the coldest December temperature on record ever in Bettles, tied with Dec 15, 1946. The frigid temperature rivalled the average winter temperatures found on the surface of Mars. The National Weather Service on … ‘Heat dome’ smashes temperature records in Alaska. The temperature in Bettles, Alaska, dropped to -60°F on Friday (Dec 27). 6 days.....December 24 to December 29, 1961 . morning is the coldest temperature in Alaska since a -66° at Fort Yukon in 2012. https://www.woodtv.com/bills-blog-2/crazy-cold-in-alaska/, “Also a hurricane blizzard on the Great Lakes north of Michigan that everyone failed to mention,” says Ryan. Toby Smith of Climate Visuals, an organisation focused on improving how climate change is depicted in the media, says: "Extreme weather and flooding, has and will become more frequent due to climate change. During the same time period, the city on Alaska’s Arctic coast has managed to snag a whopping 112 record high temperatures. Loading weather data. “There’s an extreme temperature increase with height in maybe tens to even just 100 meters above the surface.”. Alaska residents are gearing up for record-high temperatures in the days to come as a massive heat wave moves into the region. Ethiopia recently planted a reported 350 million trees in a single day, Morocco has undertaken the most ambitious solar power scheme in the world, recently completing a solar plant the size of San Francisco, Electric cars are taking off as a viable alternative to fossil fuel burning vehicles and major cities across the world are adding charging points to accomodate, Cities around the world are embracing cycling too, as a clean (and healthy) mode of transport. The all-time record for Alaska is 38C (100F) at Fort Yukon in June 1915. Please be respectful when making a comment and adhere to our Community Guidelines. Starting on the Fourth of July and lasting multiple days, temperatures across Alaska were The average temperature in Anchorage during summer is normally in the mid-sixties. However the statewide record of 37.8C (100F), was set … hows the shipping damage with waves like that on the lakes I wonder? Record-crushing heat torches Alaska as Anchorage hits all-time high of 90 The predicted temperatures for Sunday in Celsius compared to normal temperatures. Its March temperature was about 25 degrees F above normal, which is the biggest temperature departure ever recorded during March in the United States. According to Mr Brettschneider, 326 record highs were set at major climate stations in Alaska during 2019. “I don’t see any way 2019 is not the warmest year on record,” atmospheric scientist Brian Brettschneider tweeted on Friday. He may have a point! I thought you must be pretty desperate for advertisers for awhile there, Robert, lol! View Larger Image; Anchorage beat its previous all-time record by 3C – a huge margin in meteorological terms. Daily temperature records have broken around the state, and toppled all-time March records in the greater Arctic region. I was pretty perturbed by that, but someone explained that the content of the ads was not chosen by the owner of the site, but by cookies planted in the computer by sites previously browsed by other people. Los Angeles: Temperatures in Alaska's largest city of Anchorage have soared to a sweltering all-time record of 32 degrees Celsius (90 degrees Fahrenheit) as a heat wave grips the US state which straddles the Arctic Circle. Australia meanwhile sizzled to 118 degrees last month. The previous record of 85 degrees was set on June 14, 1969 (period of record 1952-2019). ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - With a daily high of 78 degrees Fahrenheit, Anchorage broke the daily high temperature record for August 15. 23 days....December 17, 1964 through January 8, 1965 . In the Lower 48, there’s freezing fog, which occurs when supercooled water droplets remain in the air at temperatures below freezing. Alaska temperatures are breaking records March 26, 2019 admin Sci-Fi Comments Off on Alaska temperatures are breaking records Temperatures in the Arctic on … It was 30.1° hotter than the average daily high temperature in May (59.5°F), and 18.1° warmer than the average high temperature in July, Eagle’s warmest month of the year. The High is over south-central Europe presently. . #AKwx #RecordHeat — NWS Anchorage (@NWSAnchorage) July 5, 2019. That’s because it’s so dry up there that most of the moisture in the air comes from human activity – automobiles, generators, or even breathing. During the same time period, the city on Alaska’s Arctic coast has managed to snag a whopping 112 record high temperatures. 2020 starts out with a spotless sun. That people are generally too stupid and screwed up to run the whole world. Major flooding events continued through the decade with the UK government declaring flooding as one of the nation's major threats in 2017," says Mr Smith of Climate Visuals, Weather has been more extreme in Britain in recent years. It seems he considers the blog an “advertisement” and those like me who post comments are “perverts”. The airport reached an astounding, for Alaska, 90°F, breaking the previous all-time record by 5°F! Sunday’s high temperature was minus 47 degrees. With temperatures making a run towards zero, it’s absurd to think that a 40 or 50 degree leap is possible in some locales ― but the temperatures still won’t be in positive territory. Paul…….the wind is from the south over the UK.Air is being dragged up from below the Azores,so it’s bound to be mild. The flow of air between these two weather systems has allowed a persistent tongue of cold to sweep down from the Arctic, lapping at the frigid tundra. “22 foot waves.”. “It only forms at 35 degrees below or lower,” explained Alex Young, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. ORDER eBOOK Fact: The Interior Region of Alaska enjoys warm summers. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Alaska Interactive Map of Historical Record High and Low Temperatures During the daytime, it doesn’t get much better. Fears over climate change growing as Alaska becomes one of the fastest warming nations, In this decade, humans have become ever more aware of climate change. Russia's meteorological service has confirmed the temperature record of 38°C (100.4°F) in the Siberian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June. Two monthly temperature records were broken in 2013 (cold April, warm October); 1979 was the only other year with both a record warm month and a record cold month. “All the particulates are actually frozen.”. Our journalists will try to respond by joining the threads when they can to create a true meeting of independent Premium. You are so lucky; try living in Australia right now as I do. George Carlin – Arrogance of mankind has been weaponized by the globalists, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cjRGee5ipM&list=RD3PiZSFIVFiU&index=4. The coldest temperature ever recorded at the original weather station located at Merrill Field on the East end of 5th Avenue was −38 °F or −38.9 °C on February 3, 1947. Temperature in Anchorage, largest city of Alaska, recorded a record high of 32 degrees Celsius when heat waves hit several states in the United States to The lowest Alaska temperature is −80 °F (−62.2 °C) in Prospect Creek on January 23, 1971, 1 °F (0.6 °C) above the lowest temperature recorded in continental North America (in Snag, Yukon, Canada). "At 5pm this afternoon, Anchorage International Airport officially hit 90 degrees for the first time on record," tweeted the National Weather Service (NWS) late on Thursday. It would feed in easterlies to the UK..Let’s see how this winter turns out. The previous record was 52 degrees Fahrenheit set in 2013. Fairbanks often has summer temperatures in the 80s and occasionally gets up into the 90s. You can find our Community Guidelines in full here. Aljazeera caption just now: “Much of Alaska seeing extreme weather conditions with damaging winds”. The warmth is all part of a rapid, long-term trend in Alaska. The city hit 32.2C (90F), easily surpassing the previous record of 29.44C (85F), recorded in 1969. Carlin was a brilliant comedian and astute observer of human behavior. Alaska’s summers are warm with temperatures that can reach into the 90°s. Not just for the day, but for the entire month. Temperature records fell across the state yesterday. Bettles, Alaska hasn’t climbed above 0 degrees in nearly 10 days. I call people like this perverts. (function(w,d,s,i){w.ldAdInit=w.ldAdInit||[];w.ldAdInit.push({slot:9972496745343078,size:[0, 0],id:"ld-6546-7092"});if(!d.getElementById(i)){var j=d.createElement(s),p=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];j.async=true;j.src="//cdn2.lockerdomecdn.com/_js/ajs.js";j.id=i;p.parentNode.insertBefore(j,p);}})(window,document,"script","ld-ajs"); 50 F here in Anchorage today. Baked Alaska sets new temperature record on Independence Day. Over a million people rely on the water of Tonle Sap for work and sustinence but, as Mr Clarkson witnessed, a drought has severley depleted the water level, In reaction to these harbingers of climate obliteration, some humans have taken measures to counter the impending disaster. The new high set today was a whopping 20 degrees above the historic average high for this date of 34 degrees. Independent Premium Comments can be posted by members of our membership scheme, Independent Premium. Because the air can hold so little moisture, any additional moisture at temperatures near minus 50 immediately results in ice fog. Climate Central, a nonprofit climate research and journalism organisation, estimates the nation’s largest state has spiked by more than 4 degrees just since 1970, rapidly melting ice and redefining life for Alaska residents. That’s the coldest December temperature on record ever in Bettles, tied with Dec 15, 1946.