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Autumn in Eagle River AK. Average daytime summer temperatures range from approximately 55 to 78 °F (12.8 to 25.6 °C); [4] average daytime winter temperatures are about 5 to 30 °F (−15.0 to −1.1 °C). [4] Anchorage has a frost-free growing season that averages slightly over one hundred days.
August 1–29 – Floods in Karnataka, India kills 61 people with 15 missing and caused $4.95 billion (2019 USD) in damage. August 2–14 – Typhoon Lekima, also known as Typhoon Hanna, kills 105 people and caused $9.28 billion (2019 USD) in damage across the Caroline Islands, East China, the Philippines, the Ryukyu Islands, Taiwan, and Malaysia.
Owing to the rain shadow of the coastal mountains, south-central Alaska does not get nearly as much rain as the southeast of Alaska, though it does get more snow with up to 300 inches (7.62 m) at Valdez and much more in the mountains. On average, Anchorage receives 16 inches (410 mm) of precipitation a year, with around 75 inches (1.91 m) of snow.
Alaska, traditionally one of the coldest states in the country, is set to see an unusually warm start to July thanks to a heat dome parking itself over the region. Temperatures could rise up to 20 ...
Alaska's largest city and two other state locations reached record high temperatures on Independence Day. The National Weather Service says Anchorage on Thursday afternoon reached 90 degrees.
Minimum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888 Maximum temperature map of the United States from 1871–1888. The following table lists the highest and lowest temperatures recorded in the 50 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and the 5 inhabited U.S. territories during the past two centuries, in both Fahrenheit and Celsius. [1]
Images of homes and trees collapsing into raging waters in Alaska have become the latest stunning symbols of climate change in a summer of wild weather — this time caused by melting glaciers.
Hog Butte Fire, Alaska, June 2022 Sign thanking firefighters, Deshka Landing Fire, 2019. In August 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency reported that "[o]ver the past 60 years, most of the state has warmed three degrees (F) on average and six degrees during winter" [1] As a result of this temperature increase, the EPA noted that "Arctic sea ice is retreating, shores are eroding, glaciers ...