to be devil’s advocate, Alaska isn’t as cold as you might assume, the south is hit by a similar current to those that warm Britain, France and Norway, so it is oceanic and has warm currents to heat it up
Still caused by global warming though, but it isn’t as bad as you might think it is, especially if you imagine Alaska to be snowy Taiga and mountainous frozen deserts
Anything Fairbanks and North is -20° F or lower a good portion of November-March. Kenai peninsula and North to Fairbanks is 20 to -20 F° in the same period. Southeast is the warmest with 40° to -10° F.
Southeast has been weird as fuck in the last decade though, it went 2 or 3 winters in row with no snow until past the new year. And what years we did get snow before new years rarely stuck around for long. Compared to the decade before where it’s 2ft deep starting end of October and didn’t leave until March at the earliest. Things are far warmer than they where. And the one glacier I see regularly has shrunk by 100+ ft of depth in the last 30 years. Shits unsettling as hell to experience.
to be devil’s advocate, Alaska isn’t as cold as you might assume, the south is hit by a similar current to those that warm Britain, France and Norway, so it is oceanic and has warm currents to heat it up
Still caused by global warming though, but it isn’t as bad as you might think it is, especially if you imagine Alaska to be snowy Taiga and mountainous frozen deserts
Anything Fairbanks and North is -20° F or lower a good portion of November-March. Kenai peninsula and North to Fairbanks is 20 to -20 F° in the same period. Southeast is the warmest with 40° to -10° F.
Southeast has been weird as fuck in the last decade though, it went 2 or 3 winters in row with no snow until past the new year. And what years we did get snow before new years rarely stuck around for long. Compared to the decade before where it’s 2ft deep starting end of October and didn’t leave until March at the earliest. Things are far warmer than they where. And the one glacier I see regularly has shrunk by 100+ ft of depth in the last 30 years. Shits unsettling as hell to experience.
Normally I think of Yukon when I think of Alaska, but how does it compare to say lower Ontario?