The sticker-covered wall outside the Prudhoe Bay General Store, a landmark in the community of Deadhorse, is seen on Aug. 22, 2018. Behind it is an oil equipment and oil-related facilities sited at Deadhorse, just outside of the Prudhoe Bay field. On Tuesday, temperatures reached 89 degrees at the industrial camp community, the highest ever recorded there and likely the highest ever recorded at this latitude anywhere in North America. (Photo by Yereth Rosen/Alaska Beacon)
A scorching hot day in Alaska’s Arctic set multiple records on Tuesday, according to the National Weather Service.
At Deadhorse, the industrial camp community next to the Prudhoe Bay oil field, the temperature hit 89 degrees. It was not only an all-time high for Deadhorse but appears to be the highest temperature ever recorded at any site above 70 degrees latitude in North America, said Brian Brettschneider, a National Weather Service climatologist.
The 89-degree reading beat the previous Deadhorse record of 85 degrees , set on July 13, 2016. And it beats the previous Deadhorse August record of 84 degrees , set almost exactly a year ago.