UPDATE:

COLD SUMMER IN ALASKA

Gloomy summer headed toward infamy CHILLY: Anchorage could hit 65 degrees for fewest days on record.

By GEORGE BRYSON gbryson@adn.com
Published: July 24th, 2008 12:10 AM Last Modified: July 24th, 2008 04:56 PM

The coldest summer ever? You might be looking at it, weather folks say. Right now the so-called summer of ‘08 is on pace to produce the fewest days ever recorded in which the temperature in Anchorage managed to reach 65 degrees. That unhappy record was set in 1970, when we only made it to the 65-degree mark, which many Alaskans consider a nice temperature, 16 days out of 365.This year, however—with the summer more than half over—there have been only seven 65-degree days so far. And that’s with just a month of potential “balmy” days remaining and the forecast looking gloomy.

National Weather Service meteorologist Sam Albanese, a storm warning coordinator for Alaska, says the outlook is for Anchorage to remain cool and cloudy through the rest of July."There’s no real warm feature moving in,” Albanese said. “And that’s just been the pattern we’ve been stuck in for a couple weeks now.

“In the Matanuska Valley on Wednesday snow dusted the Chugach. On the Kenai Peninsula, rain was raising Six-Mile River to flood levels and rafting trips had to be canceled.So if the cold and drizzle are going to continue anyway, why not shoot for a record?

The mark is well within reach, Albanese said: “It’s probably going to go down as the summer with the least number of 65-degree days.

“MEASURING THE MISERY In terms of “coldest summer ever,” however, a better measure might be the number of days Anchorage fails to even reach 60.There too, 2008 is a contender, having so far notched only 35 such days—far below the summer-long average of 88.Unless we get 10 more days of 60-degree or warmer temperatures, we’re going to break the dismal 1971 record of only 46 such days, a possibility too awful to contemplate.

Still, according to a series of charts cobbled together Tuesday evening by a night-shift meteorologist in the weather service’s Anchorage office, the current summer clearly has broken company with the record-setting warmth of recent years. Consider: 70-degree days. So far this summer there have been two. Usually there are 15. Last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 49. 75-degree days. So far this summer there’s been zero. Usually there are four. It may be hard to remember, but last year there were 21. In 2004 there were 23.

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By Katie Medred, Alaska Dispatch

In Interior Alaska summer feels like it’s over. Meanwhile, Southcentral Alaska is in the middle of possibly the chilliest July ever, while Southeast has mournfully reported the lowest summer-time temperature recorded in over 65 years.

So how are residents of the icebox handling this “coldest-Alaskan-summer-ever” talk while many in the Lower 48 sizzle in record heat? After all, don’t Alaskans say this every summer?

KTUU reports that some residents are so fed up they’re looking for ways to get out of state in a quest for more sun.

The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner expresses resentment over this summer’s consecutive 60-degree days in Alaska’s second-largest city, which is normally known for 80 and 90s in the summer.

And then there’s Barrow, which as of July 15, has received the tell-tale sign of summer’s end—termination dust.

According to Sarah Nicely, program administrator at the North Slope Borough Mayor’s Office, there had been talk that it might snow around America’s northernmost town, but no one was seriously prepared for the dusting.

“I was leaving the mayor’s office to head on over to a camp and, as I was pulling out, I looked and I thought, ‘What is that?’” she told Alaska Dispatch’s Jill Burke. “I (had thought) it was going to rain, but I realized, ‘Oh my goodness, it’s snow!’”

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Joe Bastardi Puts The Heatwave In Perspective
Posted on July 22, 2012

Real Science Guest Post By Joe Bastardi

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Any of the Climate Clown Media sheep stop to think about this

The map below shows the Alaska imprinted on the US, in the area where the heat wave is worst, and then the July temps in North America showing that the Alaskan cold is at least holding its own, and arguably outdueling the US warmth.  This is much like the pattern in the 1950s.

Enlarged

The question is will the Media swallow and follow sheep ever wake up and do a lick of digging into this, or keep marching along like drones to a drumbeat of mindless drivel.  How not one of the mainstream climate writers that buy into AGW don’t stop and look at the loads of information that should make them question this shows mindless blindness.

Heh I like that mindless blindness. Has a nice ring to it