# New high temp record in Anchorage, Alaska: 90F (32C) **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 5, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587 "2019-07-05T19:25:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 7:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/1 "2019-07-05T19:25:28Z")
[And it wasn’t just Anchorage that saw record temperatures](https://apnews.com/be84a3d282d7435aaca91c151f056a33): > [@](#): > > Kenai and King Salmon also reached new high temperatures of 89 degrees (31.67 Celsius). Palmer matched its record at 88 degrees (31.11 Celsius). > [@](#): > > Anchorage on Thursday afternoon climbed to 90 degrees (32.22 Celsius) for the first time at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the officials monitoring station. > > The previous high for Anchorage was 85 degrees (29.44 Celsius) on June 14, 1969, said National Weather Service meteorologist Bob Clay. The average high temperature for July 4 is 75 degrees (23.89 Celsius), Clay said. The average temp for Las Vegas on July 4 is 95F (35C), so now Anchorage in the summer can get almost as hot as Las Vegas in the summer! ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/2 "2019-07-05T20:02:01Z")
I predict window unit AC’s selling well at Alaska’s Home Depot and Lowes stores. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/3 "2019-07-05T20:04:09Z")
How long before you have to change your name to Mudboarder Bo? ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2019, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/4 "2019-07-05T20:10:53Z")
Well, I live in Las Vegas so I’ve already been sandboarding for years but I like the long “O” rhyming in Snowboarder Bo. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/5 "2019-07-06T17:03:22Z")
Unbelievable. I was born and raised up there, and lived there from 1998-2009 before retiring, and never saw anything like it. Alaskans generally start panting when it hits 70, although temps in Fairbanks can hit the 80s easily. I also read that the sea ice is at record lows. Just keep whistling in the dark, science-deniers. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/6 "2019-07-06T18:43:31Z")
It is sad that even the permafrost is melting, and further north it is affecting the polar bears, and probably many native villages. I was in Fairbanks way back in 1945-47, and that winter broke some records for cold, often down in the minus 60s. My favorite experience up there was one day on the radio, the announcer said, “Good news folks, it has warmed up to 40 below.” Oddly, it did feel warm. It surprises some people that the summers are pretty hot, as the sun is up for very long times. They may not still do it, but then there was a custom of starting a baseball game at midnight in July, . Plenty of light. ---
**Author:** ![MEBuckner](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mebuckner/32/2896_2.png) [@MEBuckner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MEBuckner)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/7 "2019-07-06T18:47:52Z")
I spent a couple of weeks in Alaska last August (Anchorage, Seward, and Denali). One of the (many) things that was absolutely wonderful about that trip was going from Atlanta in August to a place where I needed to wear a light jacket every day. Fuck! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2019, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/8 "2019-07-06T20:24:11Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > It is sad that even the permafrost is melting, and further north it is affecting the polar bears, and probably many native villages. > > I was in Fairbanks way back in 1945-47, and that winter broke some records for cold, often down in the minus 60s. > > My favorite experience up there was one day on the radio, the announcer said, “Good news folks, it has warmed up to 40 below.” Oddly, it did feel warm. > > It surprises some people that the summers are pretty hot, as the sun is up for very long times. They may not still do it, but then there was a custom of starting a baseball game at midnight in July, . Plenty of light. Yeah, Barefangs gets pretty hot in summer, even though it’s further north than Anchorage. And it gets holy shit cold in winter. I remember 63 below when I was in college at U of A in 1967. Frostbit both my ears. Anchorage was still having midnight doubleheaders when I last lived there in 2009. ---
**Author:** ![KlondikeGeoff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3e96dc/32.png) [@KlondikeGeoff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KlondikeGeoff)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/9 "2019-07-07T00:09:38Z")
I think one of the rules is to keep your ears covered up. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Space\_Vegetable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6de8d8/32.png) [@Space\_Vegetable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Space_Vegetable)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/10 "2019-07-07T05:47:38Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > I think one of the rules is to keep your ears covered up. 🙂 So Alaska residents and science-deniers share the same rule. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2019, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/11 "2019-07-07T18:00:27Z")
> [@KlondikeGeoff](#): > > I think one of the rules is to keep your ears covered up. 🙂 Hey, I was 19 and my girlfriend wanted French fries from the SUB, so I went out with no gloves or head covering. A classic case of the little head leading the big one. ---
**Author:** ![Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/b4bc9f/32.png) [@Ulf\_the\_Unwashed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulf_the_Unwashed)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/12 "2019-07-08T02:39:27Z")
> [@Space\_Vegetable](#): > > So Alaska residents and science-deniers share the same rule. 🙂 Hee hee. I rarely bet on things when I was a kid, but I remember betting a friend that it could get to be 100 degrees F in Alaska. (I’d read it in the Arrow Book of the States.) No way, he said. Way, I said. Wanna bet? We settled on a dollar, which was big buck back in 1969. I showed him my cite, which funnily enough he accepted, and I was a dollar richer. Thanks, Alaska. ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/13 "2019-07-08T02:43:23Z")
Baked Alaska-it’s not just a dessert anymore. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/14 "2019-07-08T09:06:31Z")
on the Alaska tv shows, i watch they’ve complained on air of it getting hotter every year although it was usually followed wit ha chuckle “what we consider hot is probably a cool day in the lower 48” so I wonder how that will play out in 9 months when they show the current summer … ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/15 "2019-07-08T10:29:39Z")
Just yesterday we hit fifty degrees centigrade, 122 degree Fahrenheit. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2019, 10:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/16 "2019-07-08T10:29:40Z")
> [@Space\_Vegetable](#): > > So Alaska residents and science-deniers share the same rule. 🙂 Love it!! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/new-high-temp-record-in-anchorage-alaska-90f-32c/836587/17 "2019-07-11T23:36:13Z")
Moose cools down under a lawn sprinkler. > **[Moose beats the heat with homeowner’s sprinkler](https://nypost.com/video/moose-beats-the-heat-with-homeowners-sprinkler/)** > > That’s one relaxed moose! The extreme heat wave happening in Anchorage, Alaska, is causing animals to cool off in the most unusual places. Watch this moose calmly lie on a homeowner’s f…