Fastest-warming place on Earth update: "Chilliest spring month in 89 years" for Alaska's Interior

In Alaska, May showers bring snow flakes | Alaska Dispatch

Even the U.S. National Weather Service, Alaska, couldn't refrain from putting the depressing weather in context. “If you're keeping track, today's snow on May 4th makes nine consecutive months that the Anchorage area has seen accumulating snow,” it posted Saturday morning to its Facebook followers.

This follows the revelation a few days ago that April 2013 was one of the coldest Aprils in Alaska over the last 74 years. For those living in the state's Interior, it was the coldest since 1924 – or the chilliest spring month in 89 years.