Utqiagvik, Where the Climate has Changed

By Ned Rozell | Geophysical Institute on Jan 27, 2018   Featured, North Slope/Northwest Alaska, The Arctic and Alaska Science  

Two things happened on top of the world this week. In Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow), on Jan. 22 the sun topped the horizon for the first time since mid-November. The day before that, Jan. 21, was the first time since Halloween the town’s thermometers recorded a below-normal daily average air temperature. The returning daylight for the […]