In Utqiagvik, Alaska's northernmost community formerly known as Barrow, it hit 4.4 degrees Celsius Monday morning.
In Utqiagvik, Alaska's northernmost community formerly known as Barrow, it hit 40 degrees Monday morning. That's not only a record by six degrees but it's the warmest that region has seen on record from late October to late April, according to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
On Sunday, the Arctic as a whole averaged 11.5 degrees warmer than the 1979-2000 average temperature and on Monday, computer models showed that average to likely be 10.5 degrees warmer than normal, according to the University of Maine's Climate Reanalyzer. "The entire Arctic is hot except for small portions of the central and eastern Canadian Arctic and a very small portion of Siberia," Thoman said from a warmer than normal Fairbanks.
Sea ice in the Arctic is about sixth lowest on record, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center. It's far below normal "but we've seen worse," Thoman said.
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