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Heat records have been shattered this week in Alaska, typically the USA's coldest state.

Deadhorse, located near the coast of the Arctic Ocean, skyrocketed to a record 85 degrees Wednesday, the warmest temperature ever recorded in that area, the National Weather Service said.

It was also the state's highest temperature ever measured within 50 miles of the Arctic, climatologist Brian Brettschneider, who lives in Alaska, said.

The average high temperature this time of year in Deadhorse is 57 degrees, Weather Underground reports.

Brettschneider also said the heat index at Tanana, Alaska, on Wednesday was 85 degrees. It was 88 degrees in Fairbanks on Wednesday, hotter than New York City's 85 degrees.

The heat wave follows a freakishly warm start to the year in Alaska. It was the warmest winter, spring and first six months of the year there, according to NOAA. So far in 2016, the state's average temperature is 30.4 degrees, some 9 degrees higher than normal.

The all-time record high temperature in Alaska is 100 degrees, set on June 27, 1915, in Fort Yukon.

The warmth in northern and central Alaska is not forecast to last, with a dramatic cool-down expected by the weekend and next week, the weather service said. Temperatures could drop to as much as 20 degrees below normal, and some freezing rain is possible in Barrow.

it's cold outside today. so much for global warming amirite?

Hoover Dam is like that because of the water crisis that Las Vegas, LA and the rest of Cali have gotten themselves into.

I'm not saying increased population doesn't have any effect at all.

Actually I believe that can be pretty well determined by rings inside the trunk of a tree.

With proper water allocation those states and California could have been fine with the current drought. They've really depleted their resources through extremely high use. Have you ever been to Vegas, L.A., Phoenix? These places scream "I'm not being serious about my water usage."

I'm not saying increased population doesn't have any effect at all. But the main cause of these low water levels is the drought.


http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2...ast-1-200-years

Record rains fell in California this week. They’re not enough to change the course of what scientists are now calling the region’s worst drought in at least 1,200 years.
Just how bad has California’s drought been? Modern measurements already showed it’s been drier than the 1930s dustbowl, worse than the historic droughts of the 1970s and 1980s. That's not all. New research going back further than the Viking conquests in Europe still can't find a drought as bad as this one.
To go back that far, scientists consulted one of the longest records available: tree rings. Tighter rings mean drier years, and by working with California’s exceptionally old trees, researchers from University of Minnesota and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute were able to reconstruct a chronology of drought in southern and central California. They identified 37 droughts that lasted three years or more, going back to the year 800.
None were as extreme as the conditions we’re seeing now.
One of the oddities of this drought is that conditions aren’t just driven by a lack of rainfall. There have been plenty of droughts in the past with less precipitation. (The drought of 1527 to 1529, for example, was killer.) What makes this drought exceptional is the heat. Extreme heat.

I was serious about my golf course crack. I can't imagine how much water it takes to keep them green in the desert. And there are a lot of golf courses in Vegas and Phoenix.

Tighter rings mean drier years

Problem solved.

Come on 32 you know as well as I do. If it's dry its going to be years before you get any LOL

Are you talking about wheat crop?

UMMM Hell no

Come on 32 you know as well as I do. If it's dry its going to be years before you get any LOL

Corn?

Hoover Dam is like that because of the water crisis that Las Vegas, LA and the rest of Cali have gotten themselves into.

Hoover Dam in the 90's....



Hoover Dam today....