Alaska is experiencing the most Sunny, warm and dry autumn in the entire history of weather observations. So, in anchorage for 32 days in a row the temperature was above the norm and never had a centimeter of precipitation.
If the majority of the inhabitants of the Last frontier, the weather is very like it, meteorologists are concerned about this climate anomaly.
According to experts, the cause became a massive area of high pressure that formed in early September over the Bering sea and «drifted» to the East, stretching over Alaska.
As reported by meteorologist Richard James, studying the weather in the region, he had never seen such a zone of high pressure in the area.
Unusually warm, dry and Sunny weather were established not only in anchorage but also in many other parts of Alaska and Eastern Siberia:
- In Fairbanks 20 consecutive days the temperature was considerably above normal.
- In King Salmon at the weekend was was temperature record for this time of year — 71ºF (+22ºC).
- In Bethel for the 4th time observations at this time of year the temperature was above zero here.
One of the «rainiest» cities of Alaska — Ketchikan — do faced with… the drought, which is very unfavorable for the region, as in the South-East of the state a lot of water use of hydroelectric power, fish farms, enterprises for fish processing and other industries.
The morning of October 1st, 2018 in #Ketchikan #Alaska—not a single rain cloud in the sky. The weather has been truly terrifying this year. pic.twitter.com/3eYVffdrIK
— Peter Stanton (@peterstanton) October 2, 2018
One of the residents of the Ketchikan jokingly called this Sunny weather «appalling».
