16 May 2016

Early 80’s

By icefogger

The 80 degree temperatures that hit Fairbanks last week set a couple of records. Officially, at the airport, it hit 79 degrees on Friday and 82 degrees on Saturday, both record highs for the two days. The 82 degrees on Saturday broke a record that had been set in 1915.

How warm was it? It was so warm here on Saturday, that our low temp of 59 (also a record) was warmer than the high temp of 47 degrees in Chicago.

On average, our high temp this time of year is 60 degrees.

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Just a basic, down to Earth, laid back type of guy here, who loves the outdoors, the indoors, jazz on the turntable, a fire in the woodstove, the northern lights blazing across the sky, and the company of good friends. View all posts by icefogger

This entry was posted on Monday, May 16th, 2016 at 11:19 PM and tagged with Fairbanks, heat, history, weather and posted in Alaska. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.

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2 responses to “Early 80’s”

• Pete
  May 21st, 2016 at 6:50 PM

  If I still lived there I would no doubt be suffering. But since i drove down here to Texas those temperatures are starting to look like a cool spell.

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  • icefogger
    May 21st, 2016 at 8:11 PM

    Best of luck to you down in Texas, Pete. Yes, you will regularly see temps that Alaskans only experience in dreams/nightmares.

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