If you thought May’s weather was bleak, you’re right. But it wasn’t the bleakest May the town has seen.
“May 2021 was somewhat gloomier than average, but 2012 and 1952 were way worse,” meteorologist Jim Green of Haines said this week.
Green maintains one of the two official weather stations in Haines. Using temperature and daily precipitation statistics, he’s developed what he calls a Relative Gloom Index. On a scale with average weather scoring a…
