How can you Alaskan's live in a place that doesnt get warmer than 70 degrees. (Fairbanks: buying, design)

[grandma4mom5]

and Alaska does have humidity. last report i saw (yesterday or so - Anchorage) was 71% humidity. granted it's not like the Texas humidity with over 90 for both, but it is what it is

[akpls]

Originally Posted by mapmd

What's the percentage of Alaskans or North Dakotans who have neck tattoos versus the percentage of Californians or Floridians who have them?

Vermin indeed. Case dismissed.

Baltimore! Yeah, case dismissed.

[happycrow]

Originally Posted by riceme

I was just going to mention that... It was in the low 50s in Fox yesterday morning and I had the A/C on in my truck. I was on the phone with someone and said, "Holy cow dude, it's 52-degrees!! I feel like I'm going to burst into flames!"

In Texas half the population wears a coat at 50 degrees and complains bitterly about dying from the cold. We had that Tuesday in an unusual cold snap and I chose not to go garden out in the cold and damp. (I've acclimated to the TX weather and am happy outdoors all year so long as I have shade).

When I lived in Idaho I was always yelled at by my parents to put on a coat.

Acclimatization.

[hizen]

Originally Posted by Worryworryworry

Im from Massachusetts, not Arizona.

Arizona is a dry heat. LOW humidity. Yes we may hit 120 in the summer.

[Gungnir]

Originally Posted by mapmd

No. Minnesota is in a mid-latitude continental interior, which means it does not have moderating oceanic influences. You either freeze or you bake. The yearly temperature extremes are far larger in these interiors than anywhere in the world along a coast.

Which is great, but the majority of Alaska is not on the coast. Where I live I'm further from the ocean than Vegas, Phoenix and around the same distance as Pittsburgh. Do Vegas, Phoenix or Pittsburgh have a coastal climate?

The other point I'd like to mention is that the climate of Alaska isn't summed up by Fairbanks, or Anchorage, or Barrow, or Juneau. Anchorage has a different climate to Fairbanks, more similar to Juneau than Fairbanks, Juneau clearly has an entirely different climate to Barrow (and it would, it's around the same distance as Minneapolis is from Jacksonville FL).

So while Minnesota may have a continental interior climate, so does Alaska (though higher latitude). Which is why we have peak low -75F winters and peak high 100F summers.

Interestingly the number of days with a daily high over 90F in Fairbanks in June, July and August occur more often in Fairbanks than Minneapolis, although the average daily temperatures are lower.

Fairbanks # Days with a daily high at or over 90F (average daily temperature)
June 17 (59.8F)
July 22 (62.5F)
August 11 (56.8F)

Minneapolis # Days with a daily high at or over 90F (average daily temperature)
June 3 (68.2F)
July 6 (73.6F)
August 3 (70.5F)

So the claim made is actually accurate, at least as far as Fairbanks is concerned.

[VJDAY81445]

Originally Posted by Gungnir

Which is great, but the majority of Alaska is not on the coast. Where I live I'm further from the ocean than Vegas, Phoenix and around the same distance as Pittsburgh. Do Vegas, Phoenix or Pittsburgh have a coastal climate?

The other point I'd like to mention is that the climate of Alaska isn't summed up by Fairbanks, or Anchorage, or Barrow, or Juneau. Anchorage has a different climate to Fairbanks, more similar to Juneau than Fairbanks, Juneau clearly has an entirely different climate to Barrow (and it would, it's around the same distance as Minneapolis is from Jacksonville FL).

So while Minnesota may have a continental interior climate, so does Alaska (though higher latitude). Which is why we have peak low -75F winters and peak high 100F summers.

Interestingly the number of days with a daily high over 90F in Fairbanks in June, July and August occur more often in Fairbanks than Minneapolis, although the average daily temperatures are lower.

Fairbanks # Days with a daily high at or over 90F (average daily temperature)
June 17 (59.8F)
July 22 (62.5F)
August 11 (56.8F)

Minneapolis # Days with a daily high at or over 90F (average daily temperature)
June 3 (68.2F)
July 6 (73.6F)
August 3 (70.5F)

So the claim made is actually accurate, at least as far as Fairbanks is concerned.

I find it hard to believe that in July, Fairbanks Alaska is above 90 for 22 out of 31 days.

[Metlakatla]

I do too, and looking around the site that was posted, it says that Annette Island gets 7 days of over 90 temps in July. I'm sorry, but that simply isn't the truth. Looking around at the data for other communities...sorry, but this site isn't accurate. It also says Juneau gets 7 days of above 90 heat in July and that Bethel gets 6, and that Kotzebue gets 3. It also says that Los Angeles gets 5 days in August where the temps get over 90 degrees. I don't think that's right.

[Gungnir]

Originally Posted by VJDAY81445

I find it hard to believe that in July, Fairbanks Alaska is above 90 for 22 out of 31 days.

Hard to believe or not, it is what it is. Do you think the NOAA and weather service are making up the data just for me?

Remember all it takes is one sample per day for it to be classed as 90F or above, so we're talking peak daily high, not average temperature or even average high.

[Metlakatla]

This isn't the NOAA official site. It's climate something.com and was probably patched together in India for adsense revenue. Please. It has Juneau getting more over 90 days than L.A.

[Metlakatla]

Just in case anyone doesn't know, here's the site for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. As its name implies, it's a government-run organization.

NOAA - National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

This tells rather a different story than what's been claimed. So no, it isn't what it is.


According to the National Weather Service, above 90 temps in Fairbanks are pretty rare.

http://www.isciencetimes.com/article...mperatures.htm