Fastest warming place on Earth?: Fairbanks temperature hasn't been above -20F since Nov 15

Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Still frigid in Fairbanks Six low temperature records set in past week

The record cold snap that has gripped the Interior for the past week continued on Monday when a new record low temperature of 38 degrees below zero was recorded at Fairbanks International Airport early in the morning. The old record low was 35 below set back in 1904, the first year the National Weather Service began keeping records in Fairbanks.

It was the fifth straight day and the sixth out of the past seven days that a new record low temperature has been recorded at the airport. The last time so many consecutive temperature records were set at Fairbanks was during the record cold snap of September 1992.

The current cold snap began on Nov. 15 when the temperature dropped to 20 below. It has remained 20 below or colder since.