It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in what many consider the nation’s coldest state, but the National Weather Service only recently allowed for heat advisories to be issued there. Information on similarly warm weather conditions previously came in the form of “special weather statements.”

So, semantics...

Not to lessen the severity of the climate change that is "fueling" these warmer temps, but Come On, AP...

🤦‍♀️ 🙄 🤡

Looks like the next logical step is... uhh... getting rid of the National Weather Service?

not climate change because it was also hot last summer. ugh

to be devil's advocate, Alaska isn't as cold as you might assume, the south is hit by a similar current to those that warm Britain, France and Norway, so it is oceanic and has warm currents to heat it up

Still caused by global warming though, but it isn't as bad as you might think it is, especially if you imagine Alaska to be snowy Taiga and mountainous frozen deserts

That's not alarming at all. Moving along...

Fake news.

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Don't believe these climatologists: they're only in it for the money.

Believe in Trump: he never lies and he wants Americans to have the cleanest air and crystal clean water.

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(and he has 43 months left in his 2nd term)

Yup humans deserve to die we are too stupid to survive, also most of us are terrible people

Won’t be the last heat advisory for Alaska.

The change doesn’t reflect unprecedented temperatures, with Fairbanks having reached 90 degrees twice in 2024, Srinivasan said. It’s purely an administrative change by the weather service.

I think this is a bit disingenuous. Sure, it's not technically "unprecedented" because it has happened before, specifically last year, but the change is because they want to better help people, and better helping people means making this change because hotter temperatures are happening more because of climate change.

Thoman also clarified that the term swap doesn’t have anything to do with climate change.

They may not be directly citing climate change, but it's absolutely the root cause. I wonder if they're just trying to stay under Trump's radar so he doesn't make them roll it back because they said the C phrase. In bad political times doing good sometimes means speaking the party line while doing good works behind their backs.