BBCNEWS BBC News December 30, 2021 03:24:00
Spell. temperatures soared to a record 19.1; celsius on the island of kodiak on sunday — almost seven degrees warmer than the state's previous high. but elsewhere in alaska temperatures have been plunging to record lows. brian brettschneider is an alaska climate scientist at the national weather service in anchorage and i asked him whether he had seen anything like this in his lifetime. well, for the month of december, really any winter month, the warmth that was experienced recently was really shocking and unprecedented. i mean, seven degrees warmer than the previous record — that's incre...