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steve2470

(37,457 posts) Thu Jul 14, 2016, 11:55 PM Jul 2016

Baked Alaska: Heat records shattered across state

http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/07/14/alaska-heat-records/87086826/

Heat records have been shattered this week in Alaska, typically the USA's coldest state.

Deadhorse, located near the coast of the Arctic Ocean, skyrocketed to a record 85 degrees Wednesday, the warmest temperature ever recorded in that area, the National Weather Service said.

It was also the state's highest temperature ever measured within 50 miles of the Arctic, climatologist Brian Brettschneider, who lives in Alaska, said.

The average high temperature this time of year in Deadhorse is 57 degrees, Weather Underground reports.

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79.9 degrees F earlier today at Prudhoe Bay, AK

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Baked Alaska: Heat records shattered across state (Original Post) steve2470 Jul 2016 OP

You betcha! orwell Jul 2016 #1

They must be dying up there Warpy Jul 2016 #2

All the way down to 80 above here in Fairbanks. raven mad Jul 2016 #3

Man, the Chinese must be working hard to keep this climate change fantasy going! auntpurl Jul 2016 #4

orwell

(7,769 posts)

1. You betcha!

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 01:16 AM

Jul 2016

wink...wink...

Warpy

(111,152 posts)

2. They must be dying up there

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 02:05 AM

Jul 2016

No shorts, no fans, certainly no AC.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)

3. All the way down to 80 above here in Fairbanks.

Reply to steve2470 (Original post)

Fri Jul 15, 2016, 04:08 AM

Jul 2016

And no one has air conditioning except the grocery stores, which close at 11.

Been putting water out for neighbordogs and kitties - and there is a "walk" so I froze a bunch of individual water bottles and handed them out.

auntpurl

(4,311 posts)

4. Man, the Chinese must be working hard to keep this climate change fantasy going!