With the arrival of summer, the year is nearly halfway through, and it has been a warm and somewhat weird one weather-wise for Alaska. While the eastern half of the U.S. shivered through winter, Alaska saw unseasonable warmth, which melted snows early in some areas and brought rains instead of snows. Snow and rain failed to fall in other places and have led to heightened wildfire risks, water restrictions and a particularly tough Iditarod.
Alaska had its eighth warmest winter and its second warmest first five months of a year since record keeping began nearly a century ago, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reported in its monthly climate review, release on June 19.
The relative warmth was in marked contrast to the situation a year ago, when the January-May period was the 40th warmest. And while May 2014 was the sixth warmest on record, May 2013 was the 20th coolest.
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