How far back is “never”?
The first sentence of the article: “In more than 100 years of Anchorage history, weather stations have never recorded a single 90-degree reading.“
Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
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Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#92Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes so in the last ~100 years it was the highest. How about 1000 years or 100000? Why is only the last 100 years relevant in the context of climate?
We use 100 years as a benchmark for weather events like floods. As to why I guess it’s a good benchmark for living memory.
I was looking at this yesterday and learned the following. A 100 year flood is a flood that has a 1% chance of happening in a given year. A 500 year flood has a 0.2% chance of happening in a given year. I’m not sure if temperature has the same model as rainfall. Anchorage was settled in 1914 according to Wikipedia, so I’m assuming that there are no temperature records beyond that and that 100 years in this case refers to it only having been settled for about 100 years.
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#93If any mod could edit the title to be "90°F" that would be great, it took me longer than I'm willing to admit to understand what it meant :)
Looks like some mod already did that. Great ! now rest of the world can't understand.
I think you're mistaken. I'm just asking to add the unit to make it clearer.
I won't enter into the unit war, and FWIW I'm used to centigrades.
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#94Earlier quoted context omitted.
"The highest temperature ever recorded at Anchorage’s official station was 85 degrees"
Yes so in the last ~100 years it was the highest. How about 1000 years or 100000? Why is only the last 100 years relevant in the context of climate?
Maybe because our whole way of life and industrial food production is adapted to the current conditions?
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#95Earlier quoted context omitted.
Right now society is monolithic. As individuals we are part of a highly coupled system and we would die without it. What we need are small communities that are independently self sustaining. That will be much more robust and eco friendly I believe
And would literally put us back to the stone age. Even the neolithic had trade networks.
Don't think you understood my meaning. Trade community and tech are all good things and can coexist with self sustaining communities
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
And would literally put us back to the stone age. Even the neolithic had trade networks.
Don't think you understood my meaning. Trade community and tech are all good things and can coexist with self sustaining communities
Please break down what you mean by self-sustaining for me then - tech is super specialized, requiring special resources to construct. There is very little of modern standards that you can self sustain - really, food is about it, and for everything else you need trade, and can't self sustain.
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#97My former co-founder of my SaaS was based in remote Alaska (I am in tropical Australia), and I remember one day a while back late in the year, it was +35degC here and she said it was -35degC over there. I couldn't believe we were equidistant on either end of the 0 datum, with a massive 70 degree C difference in temperature variation. Weirdly, it is now our dry season, with temperatures around 21degC and I just Google…
But isn't that partly due to it being summer in Alaska right now, and it is winter in Australia? You said "late last year" was your previous comparison, which implies it was approaching summer in Australia?
A quick google for "Anchorage climate chart" shows that that expected maximum temperature even during summer months is about 20°C. That's quite far away from 30°C. According to the weather forecast about 25°C are to be expected. Doesn't seem healthy.
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#98If any mod could edit the title to be "90°F" that would be great, it took me longer than I'm willing to admit to understand what it meant :)
I'd vouch for "Anchorage has never reached 32 degrees Celsius."
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#99If any mod could edit the title to be "90°F" that would be great, it took me longer than I'm willing to admit to understand what it meant :)
Looks like some mod already did that. Great ! now rest of the world can't understand.
No mod touched it. That's the article title you're looking at, which is what the submitter submitted.
I'll change it to say 90°F now.
Re: Anchorage Has Never Reached 90° F. That Could Change This Week
#100If any mod could edit the title to be "90°F" that would be great, it took me longer than I'm willing to admit to understand what it meant :)
Ok, done.