ome was a hot place to be in early July. The temperature was 20 degrees above normal at one point during that period, according to the monthly summary of the Alaska Climate Research Center.
ome was a hot place to be in early July. The temperature was 20 degrees above normal at one point during that period, according to the monthly summary of the Alaska Climate Research Center.
The center, part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, released its July summary earlier this month.
Nome, on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, had a record high of 80 degrees Fahrenheit on July 6, breaking the record of 77 degrees set in 1986. Nome also set records for the highest average daily temperature on two days: 72.5 degrees on July 5, breaking the 2008 record of 69.5 degrees, and 68 degrees on July 6, breaking the record 66.5 degrees of 1986.
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