Remarkable Cold in Alaska

A historic cold blast settling into Alaska this week will send temperatures plummeting far below zero, which could topple century-old low-temperature records in one city and even a longstanding state record. 

The severe cold comes at a time when Alaska normally starts to thaw out from brutal winter weather. 

"April is typically the time of year when Alaska is steadily climbing out of the Arctic’s icy grip, with average high temperatures rising 10-20 degrees Fahrenheit from the beginning of the month to the end in places such as Utqia?vik (formally Barrow), Fairbanks and Anchorage," AccuWeather Meteorologist Renee Duff said.

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High temperatures in Anchorage, Alaska, usually start April in the upper 30s, before reaching the lower 50s by the end of the month. Fairbanks rivals this spring warmup average by rising from the mid-30s in early April and ending up near the mid-50s by the last day of the month.

"But that has been far from the truth so far this month, with temperatures running 17 degrees below normal month-to-date in Fairbanks," Duff said.

It's been a topsy-turvy start to April in Fairbanks. The city began the month with a high of 11, and low temperatures that didn't reach above zero degrees. Around Easter, the city's temperatures nearly recovered, just a couple degrees below the average high, but this was short-lived as temperatures tanked again to fall below -20, despite average lows being around 15 degrees.

This Arctic air has no intention of leaving Alaska quickly, as conditions are anticipated to be even colder as this week concludes. While Fairbanks usually sits at a high of 40 in early April, forecasters are predicting that temperatures in the city won't rise above 7 degrees on Friday, a whopping 33 degrees below normal.

The next three days will bring historic-level cold for this time of year to parts of mainland Alaska. The state record low for April of -50F (-45.6C) might be broken," Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks said on Twitter.

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Mozart'

I do not think that global heating is caused by human beings -  it is merely a cycle of  temperature changes that covered  millions of years and a fall in temperatures  in the next five hundred years is in fact historically  possible.       

Moz

I see that the chaps from you neck of the woods, at Fermilab, are saying  they've potentially discovered a fifth law of nature.

Exciting times ahead.

Drat CO2  causing all this Global Warming and Global Cooling. Its remark able what it can do!

Yes thanks for that Plum, Illinois the center of the known universe again:

Researchers at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, or Fermilab, in Illinois, have found new evidence suggesting that a subatomic particle called a muon is not following the known laws of physics, as The New York Times reports.

Muons are a lot like electrons but 207 times as massive. They also tend to decay extremely quickly into electrons and super-light particles called neutrinos.

Exposed to an intense magnetic field by being sent around a 46-foot magnetized ring at Fermilab, the team found that the muons wobbled in totally unpredictable ways that were not at all expected, astonishing researchers.

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Wait till they discover that cell phones are actually causing these muons to wobble!

Apparently it may account for the speed at which Galaxies rotate.

I wonder if Samsung are aware?

Don't mock the Science worshipper Plum.

Draad,

I don't think you got the joke ;)

I've got a Galaxy S10e and it doesn't rotate...

Even when you throw it?

Throws like a dagger, not a ninja star....but now that you mention it, it rotates a bit when I throw it...never thought of that...but I don't throw it much...tha back is also glass .