Bill
01-19-2009, 01:27 AM
"A temperature of 48 degrees was recorded at Fairbanks International Airport early Saturday, breaking the old record of 43 set in 1981, but the temperature dropped below freezing by 10 a.m. and will continue to head south the next few days.
“The chinook is kind of dying off,” said meteorologist Daniel Robinson at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks about the warm blast of air that blew into Fairbanks from the south on Wednesday and established new temperature records at the airport on three of four days.
The high on Friday at the airport was a record 52 degrees, and a record of 44 degrees was recorded on Wednesday. The high of 45 on Thursday missed the record by 5 degrees.
The high of 48 degrees on Saturday came “almost right after midnight” and represented the tail end of the chinook, the result of warm wind from the south pushing up over the Alaska Range.
The warm temperatures came on the heels of one of the longest cold snaps to hit Fairbanks in decades, during which the temperature never rose above 20 below for 16 straight days from Dec. 27 to Jan. 11. The low temperature was 40 below or colder on 14 of those days.
Ironically, some events that were canceled because of the cold last weekend were shut down by warm temperatures this weekend. Dog mushing and cross-country ski races were canceled on Saturday because of poor trail conditions caused by the rapid warm-up."
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/jan/18/record-breaking-interior-alaska-heat-wave-comes-en/
“The chinook is kind of dying off,” said meteorologist Daniel Robinson at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks about the warm blast of air that blew into Fairbanks from the south on Wednesday and established new temperature records at the airport on three of four days.
The high on Friday at the airport was a record 52 degrees, and a record of 44 degrees was recorded on Wednesday. The high of 45 on Thursday missed the record by 5 degrees.
The high of 48 degrees on Saturday came “almost right after midnight” and represented the tail end of the chinook, the result of warm wind from the south pushing up over the Alaska Range.
The warm temperatures came on the heels of one of the longest cold snaps to hit Fairbanks in decades, during which the temperature never rose above 20 below for 16 straight days from Dec. 27 to Jan. 11. The low temperature was 40 below or colder on 14 of those days.
Ironically, some events that were canceled because of the cold last weekend were shut down by warm temperatures this weekend. Dog mushing and cross-country ski races were canceled on Saturday because of poor trail conditions caused by the rapid warm-up."
http://www.newsminer.com/news/2009/jan/18/record-breaking-interior-alaska-heat-wave-comes-en/