Alaska sweating through brutal blast of heat
By Sophia Rosenbaum, NBC News
Famed for its biting cold, Alaska is now sweating through a brutal heat wave that has gone from an oddball curiosity to a worrisome danger.
Spring never happened for many parts of the state, as a never-ending winter until mid-May gave way to record-breaking heat in June.
"It was an incredibly rapid transition," Michael Lawson, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service based in Alaska, told NBC. "Literally, our spring was about five days before we jumped into summer-type weather."
Temperatures in the 90s -- an extreme rarity -- were proceeded by a record-breaking cold snap. That caused rapid snow melts in parts of the state and localized flooding. Now, the above-normal heat has led to parts of Alaska to be placed under a red-flag warning for wildfires.
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