From Arctic to Anchorage, Alaska communities see record high temperatures
Source: Alaska Dispatch News
Unusually cold weather has struck again in the Lower 48, but communities across Alaska have seen high-temperature records this week. From the Arctic to the Alaska Peninsula and even Anchorage, Alaskans are sweating through February temps as high as the mid-50s, according to the National Weather Service.
In Anchorage, a 30-year-old record was wiped out Tuesday when the temperature reached 44 degrees at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, beating the previous mark of 43 degrees set in 1984. Unofficial temperatures in other parts of the city approached 50 degrees on Tuesday.
... In Kotzebue, 26 miles above the Arctic Circle in Northwest Alaska, a record high of 30 degrees set in 2006 was eclipsed Tuesday when the temperature hit 32. ... Several communities in Southeast Alaska broke records this week. In Sitka, the temperature at the airport Tuesday hit 54 degrees.
... Alaska has been experiencing an unusually warm and low-snow winter this year. The Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was forced to move its official restart from the Southcentral community of Willow to Fairbanks for the second time in 43 years, due to lack of snow and rough trail conditions in the southern portion of the state.
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