{"id":13744,"date":"2016-02-23T00:06:52","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T08:06:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/juneau-hits-50-degrees-ties-record\/"},"modified":"2016-02-23T00:06:52","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T08:06:52","slug":"juneau-hits-50-degrees-ties-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-hits-50-degrees-ties-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau hits 50 degrees, ties record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The thermometer reached 50 degrees at the National Weather Service\u2019s airport measuring station on Sunday, tying a record set in 1998 and marking the first time temperatures have reached 50 this year.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s warm conditions continued a pattern that has been in place since last year, which went into the record books as Juneau\u2019s warmest ever. January 2016 had no measurable snow; it was only the second time that has happened since accurate recordkeeping began in 1936.<\/p>\n<p>This February is on pace to be the warmest ever in Juneau, according to Weather Service records. At Juneau International Airport, the city\u2019s official measuring station, Juneau has averaged a temperature of 36.7 degrees through Monday, a figure 6.9 degrees above normal for the month.<\/p>\n<p>If that margin holds through the end of the month, this would be the third-warmest February since 1943.<\/p>\n<p>February 1977, with an average temperature of 40.1 degrees, has the record high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The thermometer reached 50 degrees at the National Weather Service\u2019s airport measuring station on Sunday, tying a record set in 1998 and marking the first time temperatures have reached 50 this year. Sunday\u2019s warm conditions continued a pattern that has been in place since last year, which went into the record books as Juneau\u2019s warmest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[75],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-13744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13744"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=13744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}