Honor comes from National Geographic Society                                                                                                                                             

Average Fairbanks temp. was 18 degrees Fahrenheit                                                                                                                                             

Alaska’s melting glaciers remain one of the largest contributors to the world’s rising sea levels, say two University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists. Anthony Arendt and Regine Hock, UAF Geophysical Institute geophysicists, joined 14 scientists from 10 countries, who combined data from field measurements and satellites to get the most complete global picture to date of glacier mass losses and their contribution to rising sea levels.

Southwest and Bristol Bay to see almost exclusively rain by end of century