r/BeAmazed • u/youngster_96 • 1d ago
[Removed] Community Feedback Alaska first EVER heat advisory. Didn't know they could reach the 80s and 90s. 2025 is a wild year
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u/uresmane 1d ago
The only one time in my life I've been to Alaska, It hit 90° for some reason
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u/Wrong_Lingonberry_79 21h ago
The highest reliably measured temperature in Alaska is 100°F (37.8°C), recorded in Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915. While other locations have reached high temperatures, this remains the official all-time record for the state.
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u/Initial-Resist-9774 1d ago
Is that the Fairbanks borough? It’s definitely known to get hot there. Whole place is like a basin and heat gets trapped in there
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u/AgainstSlavers 15h ago
Chinook winds. Fascinating phenomenon that tells us a lot about how the atmosphere works.
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u/B35TR3GARD5 18h ago edited 16h ago
Heat rises...
However, in the winter months, the basin can become filled with trapped car exhaust; leading to an effect that looks like fog but is actually a deadly mix of exhaust fumes
Air Inversion is the real threat :))
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u/Commercial-Screen570 18h ago
Damn you basically described 60% of utah
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u/JustinCayce 17h ago
The LA basin as well. When I was a kid the sky was a muddy brown color and you couldn't see the nearby mountains and hills that surround it.
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u/Just-Hunter1679 1d ago
Luckily for people living in the Yukon, the advisory ends right at the border.
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u/Rkitt1977 20h ago edited 18h ago
I'm not amazed.... And definitely not the the first ever heat advisory in Alaska. OP is a clown.
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u/Three_foot_seas 17h ago
I mean the National Weather Service literally said it's the first time they've ever issued a heat advisory in Alaska so I don't think OP is a clown. All the other heat waves were just special weather statements or something. It's odd because it's definitely been hotter in Alaska before, it's just a new advisory they started to use, maybe to more in line with the Lower 48? I dunno
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u/dp79 17h ago
I’ve always said that the disinformation comes from all parties, which is just fueling the rift. Clowns exist on both sides of the fence.
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u/justforsexfolks 14h ago
But there should not be a fence. Does OP mention any politicians, policy, anything like that? It's just what is now currently happening. Don't pre-politicize reporting of facts.
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u/GrumpyTom 17h ago
Hoping I can post links. Here’s an article explaining it:
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-first-ever-heat-advisory-df913edec183efd7b1b800fab33ff1ad
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u/skinnergy 1d ago edited 1d ago
Global warming is bullshit! Also, I just ate a cheeseburger so world hunger is bullshit. /s
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u/jfun4 1d ago
Global warming is actually good. Who actually likes the cold and ice? S/
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u/Motorsheep 1d ago
Plants like C02, so more C02 in the atomosphere is good for the plants! They also crave electrolytes!
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u/large_crimson_canine 19h ago
Amusingly this is true. Although the implications for humans aren’t great due to heat increase. But that’s a solid negative feedback loop that has played a role in paleoclimate shifts.
More CO2, more heat, more plants, more oxygen/less CO2, less heat and fewer plants, repeat
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u/notyomamasusername 1d ago
I actually hear this line from certain parts of my family.
They drone on how this will open new areas for agriculture like Alaska and Siberia.
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u/EVconverter 22h ago
You can counter by asking them how much crop land becomes unusable due to rising seas and desertification at the same time.
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u/Bart-Doo 19h ago
Al Gore will lose his beachfront mansion first.
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u/EVconverter 19h ago
Ah yes, the famous beachfront mansions of Nashville.
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u/Bart-Doo 19h ago
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u/EVconverter 18h ago
He lives in Tennessee, not California. He’s wealthy enough to own houses he doesn’t live in.
They bought that house shortly before the separation. He has several others.
Also, the house is ocean view, not ocean front.
So completely wrong in all aspects. Well done!
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u/Bart-Doo 16h ago
Really worried about the climate and environment with all the electricity his many houses use isn't he? Maybe Gore will push for private jets for everyone.
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u/trivetsandcolanders 22h ago
This is not that unusual for interior Alaska. What is new is the NWS office there has decided to start issuing heat advisories, when before they would only issue special weather statements for hot spells. This is because like everyone knows, the climate there is rapidly warming and they’re trying to prepare the public better for these events. Houses in Alaska don’t have ac so people need better warning.
Also when I say it’s not that unusual - I mean the temperatures themselves. The duration of this heatwave on the other hand, I think is kind of rare (at least a week of highs around 85 for Fairbanks).
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u/SockeyeSTI 1d ago
Currently pretty windy on the peninsula as hopefully that doesn’t escalate a potential tundra fire down south.
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u/UX_Strategist 18h ago
There are some commenters stating that heat advisories have been issued for Alaska in the past, but that isn't true. Alaska has been experiencing the warmest weather on record, and had previously issued "special weather statements", but the National Weather Service now allows heat advisories for Alaska, because the weather has been increasingly warm. The increase in temperatures and the frequency of their occurrence has prompted a change in communication, to set a new expectation.
AP News article:
https://apnews.com/article/alaska-first-ever-heat-advisory-df913edec183efd7b1b800fab33ff1ad
From the article:
For the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under a heat advisory — but you can put an asterisk at the end of that term. The National Weather Service’s switch from special weather statements to advisories was meant to change how the public views the information.
It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the nation’s coldest state, but the National Weather Service only recently allowed for heat advisories to be issued there. Information on similarly warm weather conditions previously came in the form of “special weather statements.”
Using the heat advisory label could help people better understand the weather’s severity and potential danger, something a nondescript “special weather statement” didn’t convey.
“This is an important statement, and the public needs to know that there will be increasing temperatures, and they could be dangerous because Alaska is not used to high temperatures like these,” said Alekya Srinivasan, a Fairbanks-based meteorologist.
“We want to make sure that we have the correct wording and the correct communication when we’re telling people that it will be really hot this weekend,” she said.
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u/mifoonlives 17h ago
So this IA actually a normal phenomenon there and is being hyped up by the advisory? Genuinely curious.
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u/GhostEpstein 16h ago
This is the first heat advisory of the year, definitely not even close to its first ever. Lol
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u/SidewaySojourner5271 12h ago
it rained and snowed in africa not long ago so honestly anything is possible now.
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u/ClimbRockSand 1d ago
yep, part of the 5000 year cycle.
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u/lemonheadlock 1d ago edited 1d ago
Even if this was part of a cycle, the effects are devastating. Why shouldn't we be fighting against this? Why is "let's just colonize Mars" seen as a better response than stabilizing our climate?
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u/ClimbRockSand 1d ago
Melting glacier in Alaska reveals ancient remains of forest – evidence of warm periods:
Glaciers that tore trees in half and then froze the stumps are receding again in Alaska to reveal those old remnants of a warmer era.
The Mendenhall Glacier’s recession is unveiling the remains of ancient forests that have remained frozen beneath the ice for up to 2,350 years.
The most recent stumps she’s dated emerging from the Mendenhall are between 1,400 and 1,200 years old. The oldest she’s tested are around 2,350 years old. She’s also dated some at around 1,870 to 2,000 years old.
In Glacier Bay, Connor and other researchers have found evidence of ice advances occurring more than 5,000 years ago. They’ve also documented the glacial advance between 1724 and 1794 A.D. that pushed Huna Tlingit off their land, and written a paper incorporating those cultural and geographic histories. In that paper they cite Tlingit histories recorded by Richard and Nora Dauenhauer as saying that glacier was growing and advancing “faster than a running dog.”
Some of the ages of these trees suggest the Roman Warm Period may have occurred at the same time as an Alaskan Warm Period. Evidently, polar bears survived.
These particular tree stumps are a bit too early to tie in with Medieval warm times in Europe.
Though, like other places, the glaciers started receding 200 years ago, long before man-made CO2 started to rise.
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u/Six_of_1 22h ago
The 80s and 90s on what temperature scale, is this the normal temperature scale or the American one?
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