While temperatures here in the Southeast have been fairly seasonal recently, Alaska has been baking with temperatures far above normal. NASA released an image showing the variation in temperatures from average for the period May 17-24. It shows the wide band of above normal temperatures in Canada and eastern Alaska stretching all the way up to the Arctic Ocean. Barrow reached 47 degrees on May 21, two days earlier than the previous earliest 47 degree temperature at that location. On the average that temperature is reached first around June 17.
You can read and listen to a story about this image and the Alaska warm temperatures at https://www.weather.com/news/news/nasa-alaska-record-warmth-may.
