National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Brettschneider says this summer has been Anchorage's coolest since 2008.
A girl at Backyard Adventures summer camp dips her toes into the cold water at Anchorage’s Goose Lake on Friday. Camp organizer Tara Blankenship said this is the nicest weather they’ve had in awhile after days of rain.
According to the calendar, it’s summer in Alaska, but you wouldn’t know it from the weather. Anchorage and many other cities across the state are experiencing cloudy skies and cooler-than-normal temperatures. While that’s lowered the risk of wildfires across the state, it has also left many wondering if and when sunnier weather will arrive.
Brian Brettschneider with the National Weather Service joined Alaska Public Media’s Wesley Early for our Ask a Climatologist segment, and says this summer isn’t as much of an outlier as some may think.As far as below normal temperatures, it’s really kind of a bullseye over Anchorage. There’s a wide swath of the state that’s a little bit cooler than normal. For Anchorage, so far through about June 27 or 28, it’s the coolest summer since 2008.
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