Winter Is 1st Spent Entirely Above Zero
From Times Wire Reports
For the first winter on record, the official temperature in Anchorage has not dipped below zero, the National Weather Service said, as the city experiences the second-warmest winter in recorded history.
The last time the city saw negative digits was 420 days ago, when it hit 10-below on Jan. 16, 2000.
Give credit to the jet stream, the high-altitude river of air that influences the region’s weather.
“We’ve had a storm track that kept taking the storm centers to the west of us,” Vonderheide said.
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