Alaska Climate Report: 2025 Ran Warm

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Alaska had one of its warmest years of the previous 100 in 2025, the Alaska Climate Research Center reports in its year-end summary.

Alaska had one of its warmest years of the previous 100 in 2025, the Alaska Climate Research Center reports in its year-end summary.

The Alaska Climate Research Center, part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute, released its 2025 summary in late January.

The year was among the warmest years going back to 1925 in National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data, the ACRC summary states. At an average of 29.6 degrees Fahrenheit, 2025 was the warmest year since 2019.

Compared with the 1991-2020 normal, Alaska overall was 1.5 degrees warmer in 2025.

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