In Utqiagvik, Alaska’s northernmost community formerly known as Barrow, it hit 40 degrees Monday morning. That’s not only a record by six degrees but it’s the warmest that region has seen on record from late October to late April, according to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. On Sunday, …
Much of the Arctic is in a burst of freak December warming. On Sunday, the Arctic as a whole averaged 11.5 degrees warmer than the 1979-2000 average temperature and on Monday, computer models showed that average to likely be 10.5 degrees warmer than normal, according to the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer. “The entire Arctic is hot except for small …
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