North Slope records fall with ‘unprecedented warmth’

 
Graphic courtesy of Brian Brettschneider
Climate change is a daily reality in Alaska. Those changes are happening across forests, tundra, in the Arctic ocean and in your backyard.
Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks climate data and trends in the state. Alaska’s Energy Desk is going to be checking in with him regularly.
Two all time temperature records were set on the North Slope on July 13th and 14th. Deadhorse hit a record high of 85 degrees on