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Anyone suffering sweltering heat this summer will be interested to know what’s going on in Alaska.
The state is on pace to have the fewest days on record reaching 65 degrees. The current record for fewest 65-plus-degree days was 16 in 1970. So far, with summer half over, there have been only seven. The forecast is for continued cool weather through July.
The cool weather is being blamed at least partly on La Nina, which has been in place most of the past year and involves cooler-than-average temperatures off the coast of South America and, in turn, tends to generate cool temperatures in Alaska (among other large-scale effects).
We certainly live on a planet of extremes. Some trivia to pursue …
