Alaska’s Spring Is Becoming More Like California’s Summer

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Alaska’s Spring Is Becoming More Like California’s Summer

Following an abnormally warm winter, spring temperatures exceeded 90 degrees Fahrenheit across a broad swath of interior Alaska in May, breaking records for the earliest day with temperatures that high.

Eagle, a town east of Fairbanks with about 120 years’ worth of weather records, reported a daytime high of 91 degrees on May 23. This was the earliest day ever with a temperature of over 90 degrees and “smashed that location’s all-time record for May,” according to the National Weather Service.

“It was 30.1 degrees hotter than the average daily high temperature in May (59.5 degrees), and 18.1 degrees warmer than the average high temperature in July, Eagle’s warmest month of the year,” the agency reported, adding that as of May 29, daily temperatures in Eagle had set or tied 10 high-temperature records.

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[Systematic Chaos]

1. Weird Al missed out on a great parody idea.

He went with Pentiums, but shoulda gone with Permafrost.

[pscot]

2. It's so hot

Sam McGee asked to be packed in ice and shipped home to Tennessee for burial. Last week the woods were burning on the marge of Lake LeBarge.

[truebrit71]

3. Good grief...

Good thing it's all a vast liberal conspiracy....