Current Events > Alaska issues weather advisory - for heat: 86F (30C)

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For the first time ever, the state known for glaciers, dogsledding and northern lights issued a heat advisory, as temperatures in Fairbanks, its second largest city, were slated to top 86 degrees over the weekend. Its not the first time temperatures have climbed that high, but its the first time the state has ever put out such a warning about heat.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/06/16/alaska-heat-advisory-climate-change/

Hope my in-laws fare alright, pretty sure they don't have AC because, it's Alaska.

It's too late

I'm sure everything will be fine.

What's the worst that could happen?

/s

We will see the right pretend they were always for the environment in our lifetimes.

Uh oh.

We're not going to make it, are we? People I mean.

86? Call me when it's 110 WITH humidity!
*Smiles burgessly*

saspa posted...

We're not going to make it, are we? People I mean.

There's gonna be a tiny strip of habitable land/zone that the remaining humans, plant, and animal life live in.

it is honest-to-goodness depressing that you know people will use "Its not the first time temperatures have climbed that high" to argue climate change does not exist, or isn't important, or isn't that impactful, or wait no it's a good thing actually

Will_VIIII posted...

There's gonna be a tiny strip of habitable land/zone that the remaining humans, plant, and animal life live in.

A strip that is going to be the source of further conflict that destroys it

If human war and conflict won't kill us, it's going to be the environment and weather in five years.

So what happens to all that snow in Alaska? Everything melts?

@Zikten do you live close to Fairbanks?

Will_VIIII posted...

There's gonna be a tiny strip of habitable land/zone that the remaining humans, plant, and animal life live in.

Nah, all the rich are moving to Mars while the middle class and poor are left to die on a massively polluted Earth.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

@Zikten do you live close to Fairbanks?

No. I'm in Anchorage

Zikten posted...

No. I'm in Anchorage

What's the weather like there usually? I've been thinking about moving there to avoid summer heat for a while now.

KajeI posted...

What's the weather like there usually? I've been thinking about moving there to avoid summer heat for a while now.

Well it's 55 today according to my weather app. Summer is usually warm but not too warm, from like may to mid August. Then it starts getting cold again

It was 85 degrees when I was in Fairbanks in 2006. The humidity and mosquitoes were intense.

Kalk posted...

Nah, all the rich are moving to Mars while the middle class and poor are left to die on a massively polluted Earth.

The poors sabotaging the rockets so the rich die with us would be 100% morally okay tbh

Unsuprised_Pika posted...

The poors sabotaging the rockets so the rich die with us would be 100% morally okay tbh

If the world does end, I hope something like that can happen before it's all over.

Will_VIIII posted...

Hope my in-laws fare alright, pretty sure they don't have AC because, it's Alaska.

we didnt in the barracks when I lived there. And Im pretty sure base housing didnt either.

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I believe the heat advisory warnings are just so people know how to keep cool and safe, most Alaskans probably don't have AC.

Long term effects of constant high temps could cause excessive thawing of permafrost which can be a very serious problem

It's over

Zikten posted...

Well it's 55 today according to my weather app. Summer is usually warm but not too warm, from like may to mid August. Then it starts getting cold again

Sounds great to me. Can't stand heat.

Kalk posted...

So what happens to all that snow in Alaska? Everything melts?

Uh, its summer. The snow has been melted for a two over a month now.

I'm the one that lives in Fairbanks.

Also, this is as clickbait as it gets. It routinely gets that hot in the Summer here. The reason this is the first heat advisory ever is because we've never been setup to send those alerts. I believe it was late last year when they finally added the option.

Wildfire season did start a couple weeks early this year though, snowpack wasn't that great from Winter and we got some early Tstorms. My phone was blowing up last night, I was sitting in my truck ready to go for awhile.

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metralo posted...

Uh, its summer. The snow has been melted for a two over a month now.

Not quite, I can go up the Dalton or Steese and find snow still. Three weeks ago it dumped a foot of snow on the Dalton and they had to shut it down.

My grandma has a caribou hunting camp up there and they have had to close it for the ladt few years because the caribou herds are too small.

Shes also very very pro right soooooo its baffling

Crimson_Corsair posted...

Not quite, I can go up the Dalton or Steese and find snow still. Three weeks ago it dumped a foot of snow on the Dalton and they had to shut it down.

oh good this guy says the snow is melted, were all good.

_____Cait posted...

My grandma has a caribou hunting camp up there and they have had to close it for the ladt few years because the caribou herds are too small.

Shes also very very pro right soooooo its baffling

It has been a rough few years for the 40 mile herd that I hunt. Covid was the last great year where we were able to take any 2. I got a monster bull with a white pelt that year. Last few years it has been one Bull only and it typically closes by emergency order on the 2nd or 3rd day for the rifle hunt. So you gotta get your bou within the first couple days, which is honestly pretty easy, or go bow hunting up the Dalton a few weeks earlier.

Crimson_Corsair posted...

Not quite, I can go up the Dalton or Steese and find snow still. Three weeks ago it dumped a foot of snow on the Dalton and they had to shut it down.

I'm sorry, I was assuming I'm talking to a laymen who figures the mountains and peaks will always have snow. The area where the majority people live in Alaska do not typically have any snow from june to august.