Seasonal Temperatures Return

After many weeks in a row of well above normal temperatures, a brief respite of normal to slightly below normal temperatures have returned to much of Alaska. For Anchorage, 39 of the previous 41 days have been above normal. For Fairbanks, 44 of the previous 48 days have been above normal. As the charts clearly indicate, there is a much greater correlation between the temperature deviations of Anchorage and Fairbanks (R-squared = 0.72) than with Juneau (R-squared < 0.04) .