Anchorage’s record setting cold summer

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Anchorage’s record setting cold summer
Posted on July 27, 2008 by Anthony Watts

From the Anchorage Daily News, some anecdotal evidence that we may not see an ice-free arctic this summer. I had previously blogged on the lateness of a 70 degree plus day in Anchorage, and now it looks like this may be one of the coolest summers on record there. A friend of mine that I have morning coffee with who is pilot that flew to Alaska’s western side to do some fishing told me a couple of days ago that the season is the “worst ever” and he’s an Alaskan native.

Gloomy summer headed toward infamy
CHILLY: Anchorage could hit 65 degrees for fewest days on record.

By GEORGE BRYSON
gbryson@adn.com

(07/24/08 00:10:35)

The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. Right now the so-called summer of ’08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees.

That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark, which many Alaskans consider a nice temperature, 16 days out of 365.This year, however — with the summer more than half over — there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. And that’s with just a month of potential “balmy” days remaining and the forecast looking gloomy.

National Weather Service meteorologist Sam Albanese, a storm warning coordinator for Alaska, says the outlook is for Anchorage to remain cool and cloudy through the rest of July.

“There’s no real warm feature moving in,” Albanese said. “And that’s just been the pattern we’ve been stuck in for a couple weeks now.”

In the Matanuska Valley on Wednesday snow dusted the Chugach. On the Kenai Peninsula, rain was raising Six-Mile River to flood levels and rafting trips had to be canceled.

So if the cold and drizzle are going to continue anyway, why not shoot for a record? The mark is well within reach, Albanese said:

“It’s probably going to go down as the summer with the least number of 65-degree days.”

Poor algoreable..............no global warming caused by man in their SUVs?

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Poor algoreable..............no global warming caused by man in their SUVs?

Sounds to me like global war...er co....ahah! climate change!!! Thats the ticket.

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  Love this, my son that served in the Army stationed in Alaska in the 1990's told me that in the summer the bugs were so bad that if one were to strip down to naked and 5 miles from base he would likely not make it as the blood suckers would have drained him dry.

Alaska is suppose to be cold, most of the year.   Few animals except for native can survive the climate. One paper he received from the Army had warnings about pets and the danger of frost bite to their ears after more then 20 minutes outside. [This excluded native sled dogs that have abapted over hundreds if not thousands of years to the cold.]

A cold year is great for the wild life that will thrive up there in no Mans land.    People adapt with technology, hardy crops will thrive with no bugs eating them all up.   

Only time to worry is if Alaska has a warm winter.