Posted on 06/28/2024 12:34:43 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Severe thunderstorms moved through the Cape Krusenstern National Monument, 500 miles northwest of Fairbanks, Alaska, Thursday morning with lightning, high winds, small hail and a shelf cloud worthy of a storm in the Plains.
A powerful area of low pressure swirling just north of the Aleutian Islands on Thursday aided in pumping warm and humid air well up into northern Alaska, AccuWeather Regional Expert Brandon Buckingham said. "As the warm air clashed with cooler air to the north, powerful thunderstorms featuring wind gusts over 50 miles per hour and hail up to 1 inch in diameter prompted the National Weather Service (NWS) in Fairbanks, Alaska, to issue severe thunderstorm warnings well up into northern Alaska," Buckingham explained. "To date, this is the farthest north a severe thunderstorm warning has ever been issued by the NWS."
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Amazing. Statitistics means that statistically improbable events will happen, or it isn’t statistics.
“Record!”. If it wasnt recorded, it doesn’t count. Say, anyone seen my glacier?
Or is it named for Charles Fairbanks, Vice President under Teddy Roosevelt?
but it’s still JUST WEATHER
I just looked it up, it was named for Charles Fairbanks like you posted.. I didn’t know that, although I lived in Fairbanks for 32 years.
Down with cow farts!!!
We must pass a law limiting Elk and Moose and Deer farts in Alaska to “Save the Planet”.
Damnit, they’re hogging all our cool air!
Looks like AccuWeather Regional Expert Brandon has provided us with a weather round-up debate assessment for the final frontier.
It really is a Star Trek parody.
Yes. It is all just weather.
Climate, on the other hand, is Manhattan Island buried under a mile thick glacier of ice.
Solar proton “Joule heating” - happens on Jupiter, but not Earth?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE3bv9gCSPY
watch, has some nice graphics.
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