The Current Heatwave (Fairbanks, Valdez, Cordova: airport, stations, interior)

[phlinak]

Originally Posted by Zoisite

I believe you, I know that what you're claiming is the truth. As I mentioned in my first post I've been keeping very close track of temperature anomolies in the Arctic and sub-Arctic for the past several weeks. Isolated spots in Alaska are not the only places where they've been experiencing such abnormally high temperature increases. Just because somebody several miles away from you is not experiencing the same thing doesn't mean it isn't true for you in your location.

Thank you.

Originally Posted by Zoisite

Don't let ignorant obstructionists and doubting Thomases get you down. People like that enjoy trying to make other people feel small.

Yes, you are quite right.

[starlite9]

Today I heard that the record was broken by one degree in Anchorage at the official temp station, it beat a 1920's era record...

One degree... Seems it did get hot before Al Gore...

[Sunset_Va]

As a kind of hobby, I keep up with weather in several places using an app on my smartphone, called Intellicast. Well, Talkeetna is one of those places , and yesterday I glanced at their current weather, and the temperature showed 96f, I thought surely that was a mistake, maybe 86? Or was it actually 96?

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by Sunset_Va

As a kind of hobby, I keep up with weather in several places using an app on my smartphone, called Intellicast. Well, Talkeetna is one of those places , and yesterday I glanced at their current weather, and the temperature showed 96f, I thought surely that was a mistake, maybe 86? Or was it actually 96?

You saw correctly, I came up with the same thing, 96°F in Talkeetna yesterday and 89°F today.

Weather History for Talkeetna, AK | Weather Underground

[Sunset_Va]

Originally Posted by Glitch

You saw correctly, I came up with the same thing, 96°F in Talkeetna yesterday and 89°F today.

Weather History for Talkeetna, AK | Weather Underground

Thanks, kinda hot in The Last Frontier, eh?

I don't wish that kind of heat on Anyone, I hate our summers here in Va.

But that hot a day in AK is highly highly abnormal I would think.

[Glitch]

Originally Posted by Sunset_Va

Thanks, kinda hot in The Last Frontier, eh?

I don't wish that kind of heat on Anyone, I hate our summers here in Va.

But that hot a day in AK is highly highly abnormal I would think.

The closer you are to the coast, the more mild the summers and winters tend to be. Talkeetna is 100 miles from the coast, but that is indeed warm for that area. It is typically the Alaskan interior (Fairbanks, Delta Junction, Tok, etc.) that experiences the extreme temperatures.

[starlite9]

Originally Posted by Zoisite

I notice that many people keep mentioning some person named Al Gore. Who is he when he's home and is he somebody important that I should be paying attention to? He must be important because so many people who are in denial about present day climate change keep on bringing up his name.

I notice also that you are parrotting the exact "same old same old" rhetoric that so many of the denialists keep on repeating over and over again. I wish you all could come up with something more original these days instead of what has become a memorized script that everyone already has heard a million times.

I think a lot of people couldn't care less about that old script or about the past, about the ages old ice cores and climate changes that happened over the last tens of thousands of years or about when there were ice ages or if there might be an asteroid or nuclear whatever. It really doesn't matter what happened in the past, it doesn't matter if climate change now is a natural occurrence or if it is something that has been influenced by man. None of that is important.

What is important is that something is happening with the climate NOW that is out of the ordinary and extreme for the people living in the here and now and it's something that people are having to adjust for and adapt to. I think most people are concerned more about the present, the here and now when there is 7 billion people on the planet who didn't exist during the ice ages and the thing that is uppermost in people's minds is food security and how their food security might be effected by the changes that are happening with the climate now.

Maybe the climate change denialists should think about getting their heads out of the sand and out of the past and take a close look at what's really happening around the world NOW. Then maybe the denialists could forget the old rhetoric, the memorized script about the past and instead start coming up with some constructive suggestions for what people can do to adjust and adapt to the climate change that is happening now and in days and years ahead.

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So to appease the global warming I assume your one of those that plan on throwing virgins into the volcano to appease the gods then?

The Earth heats up and the Earth cools down over thousands of years, the fact you're worshiping something you or I have no control over is just insane. Yet you want to take the World and turn it upside down on proven fraud claims by the clowns that conspired to push this lunatic scam in an effort garner research money.

No, I fully believe the world is heating up, what do you think melted the miles thick sheets of ice that covered the Great Lakes a few moments ago in Earths history, it will again freeze in a heartbeat and there will be nothing we can do to stop it.

One major volcano eruption will do more damage to the earth than seven billion us can do on our worst behavior. Take time to enjoy your life, tomorrow a planet killing meteor could destroy life as we know it!

Liberals, just can't leave people alone without some kind of scam.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by cjg5

^ In the Interior, I do believe.

Has not reached 90 degrees in the interior. But it reached 90 by the coastline at Valdez.

Again, temperatures in the high 80's are normal for the interior. Most years we get about a week of 80+ degrees, then it cools for the rest of the summer. This year summer started very late, by somewhere around 4 weeks.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by phlinak

Preach, brother/sister!!

The truth shall set you free.

Yep The former global warming is a religion to some.

[RayinAK]

Originally Posted by RedJacket

The one and only reason you're getting this hot weather is because of Fairbanks and all their ungodly smog. That joint needs to be torn down completely and replaced with those tall skinny evergreens that grow in the area.

Do that and the temps in Alaska will drop by 20 degrees. Guaranteed.

It's not smug, but the highest birch and poplar pollen count in the world. What we have to do around here is cut all the trees in sight for firewood.