{"id":15390,"date":"2017-05-18T16:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T23:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/juneau-hits-70-degrees-for-the-first-time-in-2017\/"},"modified":"2017-05-18T16:25:25","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T23:25:25","slug":"juneau-hits-70-degrees-for-the-first-time-in-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/juneau-hits-70-degrees-for-the-first-time-in-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Juneau hits 70 degrees for the first time in 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska\u2019s capital city saw a high temperature of 71 degrees Tuesday, hitting the 70-degree mark at Juneau International Airport for the first time in 2017. It was Juneau\u2019s first 70-degree day since August 28, according to the National Weather Service.<\/p>\n<p>Fairbanks also recorded its first 70-degree day of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau reached 70 degrees almost two weeks earlier than normal. Since 1942, Juneau\u2019s first 70-degree day has averaged May 29.<\/p>\n<p>In the frigid summer of 1970, Juneau didn\u2019t see a 70-degree day until July 26. In 2003, Juneau saw a 70-degree day on April 24, the earliest on record.<\/p>\n<p>Since the start of accurate recordkeeping at the airport, Juneau has averaged 19 70-degree days per year. In 1973, there were only two. In 2004, there were 42.<\/p>\n<p>The National Climate Prediction Center is estimating an above-normal chance for warmer-than-normal temperatures this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska\u2019s capital city saw a high temperature of 71 degrees Tuesday, hitting the 70-degree mark at Juneau International Airport for the first time in 2017. It was Juneau\u2019s first 70-degree day since August 28, according to the National Weather Service. Fairbanks also recorded its first 70-degree day of the year. Juneau reached 70 degrees almost [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":426,"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":[75,48],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-15390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390","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\/426"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15390"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=15390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}