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Alaska is cool; 77% summer days colder than normal
Topic Started: Sep 7 2008, 04:16 AM (190 Views)
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Summer is officially over in Alaska, and if you got out in the sun to enjoy both days of it you were lucky.

Those were the two July days the temperature at the offices of the National Weather Service in Anchorage hit 70 degrees or better.

"Those temperatures occurred at the beginning of the month (of July) and were immediately followed by a long stretch of cool and wet weather.

"With only two days above 70 degrees this year, that sets a new record for the fewest days to reach 70,'' the weather-watching agency reported Friday.

Add to the lack of heat and sunshine what the agency calls "an astonishing 77%" of days colder than normal, and you get the picture.

This summer was every bit as bad as you thought it was.

Gardens didn't grow. Salmon returned late. Bees didn't make honey. Swallows didn't breed.

And the sunbathing, well, what sunbathing?

On average, Anchorage sees 16 days that hit 70 or better.

Not this year. Not since 1980 has there been a summer less reflective of global warming than this one. Consider these 2008 benchmarks from the weather service that say this month won't be any better:

Over the course of the past 87 years, September temperatures have reached 70 only 17 times, and two of those 70-degree days came in the same year, according to the weather service.

On average, a 70-degree September day comes along about once every five years, but those days also tend to come in warm years, not years like this one.

Overall, the weather service ranks the summer of 2008 as having the third coolest average high temperatures since record keeping began. Only the summers of 1973 and 1971 were worse. In overall average daily temperatures, 2008 ranked 11th place.


Edited by Tidbits, Sep 7 2008, 04:17 AM.
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2008 numbers

• Anchorage's average high temperature was 60.9 degrees, 3 degrees below normal.

• The average low was 47.7 degrees, 1.9 degrees below normal.

• The average for the season was 54.3 degrees, 2.4 degrees below normal.




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MARC LESTER / Daily News archive
The cool summer wasn't lost on high school cheerleaders, who battled cold and rain for the Aug. 9, 2008, football season opener.


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