This winter in Alaska was one of the coldest of the last several years.
And while it felt cold to Alaskans, that’s not really saying much, says University of Alaska Fairbanks Climatologist Brian Brettschneider. That’s because the last few years have also included some of the warmest winters ever in Alaska.
Back for our Ask a Climatologist segment, Brettschneider told Alaska Public Media’s Casey Grove the supposedly cold winter of 2019 and ’20 would have seemed warm compared to pretty much any winter prior to 1975.
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Casey Grove is host of Alaska News Nightly, a general assignment reporter and an editor at Alaska Public Media. Reach him at cgrove@alaskapublic.org. Read more about Casey here.
