Title: Climate change is already affecting Alaska’s weather.
Headings: Baked Alaska
Baked Alaska
“What’s living in Alaska if it’s not cold and snowy?”

Content: Climate change is already affecting Alaska’s weather. Baked Alaska
The Richardson Highway as it runs through the Keystone Canyon on Jan. 25, 2014, in the aftermath of an avalanche near Valdez, Alaska. Traffic to the town was cut off from the rest of the state after a series of avalanches blocked the only road into the coastal community. Courtesy of Alaska DOT&PF via Reuters
E arlier this winter, Monica Zappa packed up her crew of Alaskan sled dogs and headed south, in search of snow. “ We haven’t been able to train where we live for two months,” she told me. Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, which Zappa calls home, has been practically tropical this winter. Rick Thoman, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Alaska, has been dumbfounded. “ Homer, Alaska, keeps setting record after record, and I keep looking at the data like, Has the temperature sensor gone out or something? “ Something does seem to be going on in Alaska. Last fall, a skipjack tuna, which is more likely to be found in the Galápagos than near a glacier, was caught about 150 miles southeast of Anchorage, not far from the Kenai.