At over 32.2 degrees, a new temperature record has been recorded in Alaska’s largest city. The value was measured Thursday afternoon at Anchorage International Airport, the National Weather Service NWS wrote in the night on Twitter yesterday. At 29.4 degrees, the previous record, measured on June 14, 1969, was almost three degrees lower.
Temperature records have also been recorded in other areas along the US coast, NWS said. For example, in the small towns of Kenai and King Salmon, where each measured 31.6 degrees. Also in the arctic zones of Alaska unusually high temperatures were observed in the spring.
In the interior of Alaska, temperatures of well over 30 degrees are not uncommon. The highest ever measured value in the entire state dates from June 27, 1915. In the eastern Fort Yukon recorded the thermometer at that time 37.8 degrees. Nevertheless, scientists assume that global warming in the northernmost and westernmost states of the US is progressing much faster than the average for the earth.
According to climate expert Rick Thoman, the average temperature in Alaska increased by 2.6 degrees between 1901 and 2016. Across the United States, the average increase was only one degree.
