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Some of the Canadian High Arctic has seen its first temperatures above freezing this year.
Alert, Nunavut was on May 31, very close to average.
2007-2016 avg: May 30
This is the 6th earliest of 11 in the 2007-present period, right in the middle.
Eureka, Nunavut hasn't happened yet, current forecast is for June 13.
2007-2016 avg: May 28, range May 21 - June 6
This will rank the latest in the 2007-present period.
The last time Eureka failed to reach freezing by June 7 was in 1999, with June 9.
The last time Eureka failed to reach freezing by June 9 was in 1980, with June 14.
Resolute, Nunavut was on May 22, well ahead of average.
2007-2016 avg: June 1, range May 16 - June 7
This is the 2nd earliest in the 2007-present period. Only 2008 was earlier.
Spoiler
Alert / Eureka / Resolute
07: June 1 / June 6 / June 6
08: May 19 / May 21 / May 16
09: June 8 / May 27 / June 3
10: June 9 / May 24 / June 7
11: May 21 / May 23 / May 23
12: May 27 / May 29 / May 30
13: May 27 / June 2 / June 6
14: May 25 / May 25 / June 2
15: June 6 / May 31 / June 3
16: June 4 / June 4 / June 7
It seems Eureka went above freezing earlier than forecast. High temperature yesterday, June 7 reached 32.5 F / 0.3 C.
The current Wunderground forecast has temperatures between 18 - 27 F / -8 to -3 C forecast through June 17 (the warmest high is forecast to be 27 on June 13, and the coldest low 18 on June 11). This is very cold for this time of year for Eureka, so I decided to check Environment Canada's forecast.
Weather.com has highs 30-31 / lows 23-25 through June 12 and highs 33-34 / lows 27-28 from June 13-15.
Yr.no has temperatures near freezing through June 11, getting up to 41 F / 5 C by June 14.
Forecasts are all over the place, but I'm going to say weather.com will be the closest. That area has been slow to warm up this year.
As far as I know, Environment Canada does not issue a forecast for Eureka and Alert anymore. No one one lives there. Plus, it would be suffice to say "damn cold," and just leave that up year round.
The summer season of 1947 was remarkable in Southern Norway.
Oslo 1947 (94 m)
Month avg high/low mean record high:
May: 21.1C / 7.7C mean 14.4C record high 26.8C
Jun: 23.1C / 12C mean 17.1C record high 33.7C
Jul: 24.1C/ 13.5C mean 18.6C record high 29.1C
Aug: 27.5C / 13.4C mean 20.5C record high 30.9C
Sep: 18.6C / 9.9C mean 14.1C record high 24.7C
Only August was the warmest ever, many July months have been warmer than this. It is the combination of all these 5 months warmer than avg that is remarkable.
August 1947 might have reach avg daily high above 29C at some valleys in S Norway. It was also extremely dry and sunny, at least 15 weather stations did not record any precipitation whatsoever, and one station had avg cloud cover only 17 % for the month of August, the third lowest for any month in Norway.
Oslo recorded 0.2 mm precip, and had 27 days with 25C + temps that Aug.
In the same year, Feb was very cold, Oslo: -8.6C / -16.5C mean -12.9C! record low -21C
Ambler, Alaska also has the lowest maximum temperature in Alaska, -66F at the Ambler West station. According to the book Extreme Weather the wind chill that day was -120, which has to be based on the old formula if it's even true. The station was only around for about 10 years but there is another weather station in Ambler.
Also, while it's true that nowhere in the lower 48 of the US is colder than Fort McMurray, Alberta, some places in northeast North Dakota and northwest Minnesota are very close. Hallock, MN is the coldest for 1981-2010 with an average of 4.7F/-15.2C. Fort McMurray is 4.5F/-15.3C.
Since April 20th they been above 40°. At 10pm they are at 39° now. Oh well. Only a tie but still. Wow
Considering that May here is the equivalent to November in the north, in some Falls my city goes below 40ºF earlier than Boston. That's my interesting weather stat, haha.
In 2017, for example, we had a low of 38ºF in April 28 (equivalent to October in Boston).
Comparing the average lows in both cities we can see that Boston is a lot colder, so it's interesting that sometimes this can happen.
April here: 56.8ºF
October in Boston: 46.5ºF
May here: 51.4ºF
November in Boston: 38.0ºF
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