While Southwest and Southcentral Alaska experienced cool, wet conditions in July, Utqiaġvik had its hottest month on record and Fairbanks had its second hottest. And Juneau’s heat lagged only behind July of 2018 and 2019.
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Scientists are studying what extreme drought looks like in Alaska’s temperate rainforest
Heat threatened salmon hatcheries. Berries were sparse. And an insect called the Hemlock sawfly ate the needles off half a million acres of trees in the Tongass.