New heat record for Anchorage, Alaska

[LKJ1988]

Originally Posted by Arktikos

Unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the big die off for me will happen within 30 years so I won't see these.

Posting it again for this forum, Juneau AK just broke record for number of consecutive days over 70F with 14.

I hope i am gone by the next 30 years. 90% of living things will be dead after 120 years. The ramp up will be unreal on runaway heating on a scale we have never seen, but has been seen in the past as the planet warms and cools over billions of years.

[Ethereal]

Originally Posted by Klimaforscher

Warming is worse in the northern hemisphere, and worst at the pole.
Although it's unlikely, one can posit a circumstance in a hundred years where great migrations empty the tropical and subtropical lowlands to bring dense populations into the mountains, and to the poles...

It's pretty bad here in southeastern Australia as well.

[wawa1992]

I always knew that 85 F / 29 C record was doomed. Fairbanks has hit 99 F / 37 C and they're only about 6 F / 4 C warmer than Anchorage. Now the records line up better.

That being said, a one-off 90 degree day may be a good thing but a pattern of significant warming is not. Warming in Alaska is concentrated in the winter, it's caused a lot of problems, as an example it's caused problems for the Iditarod in March. The Iditarod is a sled dog race from Anchorage to Nome, due to a lack of snow in Anchorage they had to move it in 2015 and 2017 so it started in Fairbanks.