Anchorage, Alaska (AP) – for the first time ever, parts of Alaska will be under heat consultant – but you can put a stars at the end of this term.
This is not the first case of unusually high temperatures in what many consider to be the coldest country in the country, but the national weather service only only allowed the issuance of heat consulting there. Information on warm weather conditions was in the form of “special weather data”.
The use of the heat consulting designation can help people understand better weather and its potential risk, which is not transmitted by the non -described “special weather statement”.
The first consultant is Sunday in Ferbanks, where the temperatures are expected to lead 85 degrees Fahrenheit (29 ° C). Officials said Ferbanks was warmer in the past, but this is unusual for the month of June.
Here is what to know about Alaska’s opening consultations:
Why is the first
The National Weather Authority from the special weather data was supposed to consult to change how the public saw information.
“This is an important statement, and the audience needs to know that there will be increasing temperatures, and it may be dangerous because Alaska is not used in high temperatures like this,” said Alecia Srinifasan, the meteorologist in Ferpanx.
“We want to make sure that we have the correct formulation and correct communication when we tell people that it will be really hot this weekend,” she said.
It has never been unprecedented, not climate change
Serenivasan said the change does not reflect unprecedented temperatures, as Ferbanks reached 90 degrees in 2024. It is a purely administrative change by the weather service.
“It is not the heat in the interior that prompted Fairbanks to release this is to record heat or anything like that. Now there is a product to be released,” said Rich Thuman, climate specialist at the Alaska Climate Evaluation and Policy.
Thuman also explained that the term Mubbala has nothing to do with climate change.
Thuman said: “I think some of them are associated with confession that hot weather has an effect on Alaska, and in the interior in particular,” Thuman said.
Little air conditioning
Although the temperatures in expectations will not be considered an extremist in the other United States, Thuman indicated that most of the Alaska buildings do not contain air conditioning.
“On the contrary, most buildings are designed in Alaska to keep heat for most of the year,” he said.
People can open their windows to allow cold air during the early morning hours-if forest fires are not burning in a fire. But if the smoke is and the windows should remain closed, the buildings can heat them very quickly.
He said: “Last year was the third year in a row in Ferbanks with more than a hundred hours of smoke that reduces vision, which is the first time we spent three consecutive years over a hundred hours.”
There were only two summer in Ferbanks in the twenty -first century without hours of smoke that reduced the vision, the position he said is common from the fifties to the seventies.
What about Ancorage?
Junau and Fairbanks weather offices are allowed to release Est. Regardless, temperatures in the region have not reached the minimum this year when a heat consulting consultant will be issued.
Bryan Bretschentyder, the climate of weather service, said by e -mail that the anchorage office is working on a plan to issue such consultations in the future.
