He says there's a slight chance of below - normal temperatures in eastern Interior and Southeast Alaska, and he predicts relatively
normal seasonal conditions elsewhere around the state.
Rick Thoman is the weather service's climate science and services manager for Fairbanks, and he says the agency's computer models suggest near -
normal seasonal conditions around the Interior for the next three months.
Not exact matches
After this process was used by the researchers to determine new
normal conditions for global average temperatures, it was used again to examine record hot
seasonal temperatures at a regional level.
With lack of multiyear ice, a
normal or slightly below -
normal thickness offshore ice cover (based on ice thickness flights earlier in the season) and coastal ice vulnerable to early break - up, ice
conditions would favor a
normal or somewhat early
seasonal ice retreat.
On a
seasonal basis, only winter and only the northeast of BC showed drier than
normal conditions.
Northeast BC experienced a dry winter with low snow packs and these
conditions are revealed as below
normal to much below
normal precipitation amounts in January and March (
seasonal values are shown in Figure 3a).
The forest initially «greened up» during the dry period, as anticipated from
seasonal changes under
normal conditions (da Rocha et al., 2009), but subsequently experienced productivity decline and mortality (Phillips et al., 2009).