Alaska Basks in Record Heat

[sintax]

From permafrost to permatan, Alaska basks in record heat

By David Usborne in New York

Published: 16 August 2005


If Americans are clamouring to beat the heat this summer, they had better not do the obvious and travel to Alaska. For the second summer in a row, the glacier state has been baking under sweltering skies, stirring anxieties about global warming and its impact on the polar region.

August is meant to be a scorcher in Dallas but not in Fairbanks, where temperaturesyesterday were in the mid-80s Fahrenheit (high 20s Celsius). The weather has been clear and hot over almost all of Alaska for the past week, due to an intense high pressure dome that is reluctant to move on.

"This is for real; it is not a meteorological joke," said Ted Fathauer, who is the chief forecaster at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. Over the past few days temperatures have topped 90F in some areas of the interior.

Temperatures might have gone even even higher levels if the skies had not been partially shrouded by smoke coming from the usual summer eruption of forest wild fires.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article306160.ece

[edbermac]

1. Baked Alaska?

I'm such a witty bastard...:rofl:

[I_Make_Mistakes]

2. We have had 5 heat waves in the Philly area

The news reported on Sat. that the above 90 degree (we have had well above above 90 degree days) temps are on par for the summer. Ok, they said normal summer days of 90+ hi's where 26 days and and we were at 25 days, only it was 8/13 not 9-10/13.

Well, this global warming is almost a joke to anyone who doesn't care.

[jayfish]

3. Sure The Earth Is Warming, But It's Part Of A Natural...

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah

tell me if you've heard this one before

blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah global warming.

Damn it's easy being a conservative.

Jay

[girl gone mad]

4. The latest garbage from conservatives is..

that we don't have any right to expect stable temperatures.

No one ever promised us a rose garden, and all that.

:eyes:

[jwirr]

5. Ode magazine has an ad for the Greenfestival that has a

polar bear setting on an ice flow and the captions reads "Did you think you'd ever see the day when a polar bear would wish for an ICEMAKER."

[Carolab]

6. The permafrost has been melting for some time now.

Read The New Yorker's three-part series on this a few months back. You can read it on-line. It's very disturbing.

[karlrschneider]

7. Somehow I doubt "basking" would be the gerund of choice if an Alaskan

had written this little piece...
:eyes:

[sintax]

8. Global Warming

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it. - Bob Dylan

[Art_from_Ark]

9. I was in the town of Chicken, Alaska, a few years ago

and the temperature was 86 degrees. The locals didn't seem to think it was a big deal. After all, the sun shines for most of the day in the summer, and the town is well inland, meaning that continentality will play a big role in its temperature.

As far as that goes, the city with the biggest temperature differential is Verkhoyansk, Siberia, which has seen summer temperatures as high as 98 degrees (and winter temperatures as low as minus 94 degrees)