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For the first time, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, with Fairbanks ...
With temperatures rising to around 86 degrees in Fairbanks, residents in Alaska got their first-ever heat advisory.
Before June, the weather service had issued special weather statements about high temperatures. Now they trigger heat ...
The state, which previously issued information about high temperatures using special weather statement, has issued its first ...
For the first time in recorded history, a heat advisory was issued for several communities in the Alaska interior. For ...
This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Alaska just hit a climate milestone — its first-ever heat ...
It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in Alaska, but using the heat advisory label could help convey the ...
“We have homelike greenhouses we’re living in,” Laney said. And when a heat wave comes to Alaska in June, there can be little reprieve. In Fairbanks this time of year, the sun sets around 1 ...
This year's fire season started slowly due to cool and rainy weather, but it roared to life last week with near-record heat ...
To call a heat advisories in Alaska, temperatures must be forecast to reach maximums of at least 75 to 85 degrees depending on location.
The National Weather Service (NWS) offices in Fairbanks and Juneau issued the initial heat advisory on June 12, followed by ...