Juneau\u2019s warm trend continued into the second month of the year as the capital city recorded its second-warmest February since accurate recordkeeping began.<\/p>\n
According to measurements taken by the National Weather Service at Juneau International Airport, February 2016 averaged 37.6 degrees. Since 1936, only February 1977 was warmer at the airport, the city\u2019s official measuring point.<\/p>\n
In downtown Juneau, where incomplete records go back to 1890, temperatures averaged 39.4 degrees. That figure was the second-warmest as well, behind only 1977.<\/p>\n
January, according to the Weather Service, was the ninth-warmest on record in Juneau. Last year, 2015, was the warmest ever recorded in the capital city.<\/p>\n
The warm weather has dried up Juneau\u2019s snowfall as well. Only 2 inches was recorded at the airport; that figure was 14.8 inches below normal.<\/p>\n
Through March 1, Juneau has seen 34.9 inches of snowfall this winter, the third-lowest figure at the airport since 1936. <\/p>\n
Rainfall was the dominant form of precipitation at the airport, but even though 22 of February\u2019s 29 days recorded at least a trace of precipitation, the total was almost nine-tenths of an inch below normal.<\/p>\n
The Weather Service recorded 3.26 inches of precipitation at the airport, below the normal figure of 4.13 inches.<\/p>\n
Warm conditions are expected to continue through at least May, according to the National Weather Service\u2019s Climate Prediction Center. The center is predicting a 63 percent chance that temperatures will be above normal through the next 90 days. <\/p>\n
\nJuneau\u2019s top 11 low-snow winters<\/strong><\/p>\n 24.4\u201d winter of 1987-1988<\/p>\n 30.2\u201d in 2000-2001<\/p>\n 34.9\u201d in 2015-2016 (through March 1)<\/p>\n 35.5\u201d in 1986-1987<\/p>\n 35.6\u201d in 1997-1998<\/p>\n 41.3\u201d in 1969-1970<\/p>\n 42.6\u201d in 1952-1953<\/p>\n 43.2\u201d in 1999-2000<\/p>\n 46.3\u201d in 1976-1977<\/p>\n 48.6\u201d in 2014-2015<\/p>\n 52.4\u201d in 1977-1978<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Juneau\u2019s warm trend continued into the second month of the year as the capital city recorded its second-warmest February since accurate recordkeeping began. According to measurements taken by the National Weather Service at Juneau International Airport, February 2016 averaged 37.6 degrees. Since 1936, only February 1977 was warmer at the airport, the city\u2019s official measuring […]<\/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-5576","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\/5576","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=5576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5576"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=5576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}