New National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) climate “normals” set for release in May will reflect weather trends from the past decade. Haines likely won’t see much of a shift, but for Alaska, the new normals will reflect rising temperatures that have characterized the past several decades.
At the start of each new decade, NOAA updates its 30-year weather averages, the baseline for what climate scientists call “normal” in a given region, to include the…