'Astounding' warmth recorded across Alaska last month, according to climate center

[ErikJ]

Source: Alaska Dispatch

The warmth that swaddled Alaska in October was nothing short of "astounding," with 30 warmer-than-normal days and the overall temperature a "significant" 7.4 degrees higher than normal.

The dramatic adjectives come from the normally staid Alaska Climate Research Center, which reports on the wet-and-warm month in a new summary that highlights the drumbeat of shattered records in both temperature and precipitation.

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Read more: http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/20131108/astounding-warmth-recorded-across-alaska-last-month-according-climate-center

[Zeke L Brimstone]

1. I presume it would be too much to hope...

.....that this warming might be explained by the spontaneous human combustion of the entire Palin clan, now would it?

[truebluegreen]

2. Sadly, no such luck.

Welcome to DU.

[roguevalley]

3. I just deadheaded my plants. A petunia in my flower boxes and my celery plants in the

ground. I can wear a hoodie outside today. We are 2.5 months off the usual weather pattern. It is that late coming the way it should. I have green grass on my lawn and some of my trees still have green leaves. I live on the Kenai Peninsula of Alaska.

[Novel style]

4. Was it A record month?

[bluedeathray]

5. It's just the beginning.

Americans are going to be hitting 3 walls ~soon.

Ecology, Economy, Energy.

[Pterodactyl]

6. Frightening. Next thing you know, Heat Miser will let it snow in Southtown.

[Bandit]

7. Alaska is a very large state and has many different climates

Alaska can stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific and has every bit as many differences in climate as the lower forty eight does. Right now there is an eighty degree difference between where I live and other Alaskan cities. Many times this month it has been close to a hundered degree difference. Fairbanks is sitting at forty below while Juneau is at forty above. Our December has not been all that warm and we have had over ten feet of snow already. Go figure...

[Theyletmeeatcake2]

8. People seem to think global warming is just an increase in temperatures but.

The science community ( the real scientists not The Lord moncktons) say that what happens is extremes in weather with calamitous results .i'm not a scientist but know that these people are and trust their expertise .they are up against very powerful interests that don't hesitate in spinning everything With their media interests.

[Delphinus]

9. You are quite correct.

Belated welcome to DU.