Utqiagvik, Alaska, formerly known as Barrow, saw its most rain in a single day, while Fairbanks was raked by high winds.
The record is especially remarkable considering Utqiagvik’s typically dry climate; its annual precipitation is just 5.39 inches.Rick Thoman, a climate expert at the University of Alaska’s International Arctic Research Center, wrote in an email that the Utqiagvik record was yet another example of intensified precipitation in the state amid a warming climate; he said another top-10 rainfall day occurred in Utqiagvik just last September.
Alaska’s capital, Juneau, recently saw both the wettest January and February on record, while the town of Talkeetna, north of Anchorage, saw the third most precipitation of any summertime two-day period on record earlier this month. And in Fairbanks, the most populous city in the interior of Alaska, an unprecedented December deluge in 2021 made for what was by far the wettest cold-season day on record.
According to Thoman, the North Slope of Alaska — a swath of the northernmost land in the United States — has seen a significant increase in precipitation over the past 50 years. The trend “is surely tied to dramatic decrease in late summer and autumn sea ice,” he wrote. The decrease in sea ice is a well-known symptom of global warming that increases the amount of moisture available to storms in the region.
The same storm that dropped record-setting rain on Utqiagvik also slammed Fairbanks with damaging wind gusts on Monday. The city saw winds gust as high as 44 mph, while nearby Fort Greely and Delta Junction experienced gusts to 56 and 63 mph, respectively.In Fairbanks, a city unaccustomed to winds that would generally cause little damage elsewhere in the United States, the gusts felled hundreds of trees.
Here are the peak wind gusts that have been observed in Interior Alaska from 9 AM through 9 PM. Winds are currently decreasing across the Interior and will continue to do so through tonight.
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