brian brettschneider is an alaska climate scientist at the national weather service. for the month of— like this in your lifetime? fr?" the month of december, really any winter month, the warmth that was experienced recently was really shocking and unprecedented.- was really shocking and unrecedented. . , unprecedented. seven degrees warmer than — unprecedented. seven degrees warmer than the _ unprecedented. seven degrees warmer than the previous - warmer than the previous record, that is incredibly rare? , ., record, that is incredibly rare? , . rare? yes, that was breaking the daily and _ rare? yes, that was breaking the daily and monthly - rare? yes, that was breaking| the daily and monthly records which are seldom broken and when they are it is usually by small barges. the monthly record was broken by four celsius though it really was an exceptional event that occurred.— exceptional event that occurred. , ~ occurred. the people like me, we're talking _ occurred. the people like me, we're talking about _ occurred. the people like me, we're talking about high - we'r

brian brettschneider is an alaska climate scientist at the national weather service in anchorage.cember, really any winter month, the warmth that was experienced recently was really shocking and unprecedented. seven degrees warmer than the previous record, that is incredibly rare? yeah, that was breaking the daily. even the monthly records which monthly records are so seldom broken and usually when they are, it is usually by very small margins. the monthly record was broken by four celsius so itjust really was an exceptional event that occurred. so for simple people like me, this has been dubbed as �*icemegeddon�* but we're talking about very high temperatures — just try and square that circle if you can. yeah ,so alaska is normally very cold so for example, in fairbanks, they recorded their third wettest day on record but it was all below freezing so even though they were about 18 c above normal, it all still fell as frozen precipitation and that has created just tremendous hardship. power outages, roof collapses, record snow falls and snow depth, in some places — it has really b

brian brettschneider is an alaska climate scientist at the national weather service in anchorage and for the month of december, really any winter month, the warmth that was experienced recently was really shocking and unprecedented. i mean, seven degrees warmer than the previous record — that's incredibly rare, right? yeah, that was breaking the daily record. even the monthly records — which monthly records are so seldom broken and usually when they are, it is usually by very small margins. the monthly record was broken by four celsius, so itjust really was an exceptional event that occurred. so, for simple people like me, this has been dubbed as �*icemegeddon�* but we're talking about very high temperatures — just try and square that circle if you can. yeah, so alaska's normally very cold. so for example, in fairbanks, they recorded their third wettest day on record, but it was all below freezing. so even though they were about 18 c above normal, it all still fell as frozen precipitation and that has created just tremendous hardship. power outages, roof collapses, record snow falls