TRUCK FIRE – Firefighters knock down a fire in a Ford Explorer truck in Arrowhead Trailer Park in the 1200 block of Sawmill Creek Road Saturday evening. One person received fire-related injuries and was taken to the hospital, Sitka Fire Department Chief Craig Warren said, and the truck was considered a total loss. The cause of the fire is under investigation, Warren said. The fire hall received the call about the fire at 5:33 p.m., and one fire engine with eight firefighters and an ambulance were dispatched, he said. (Sentinel Photo by James Poulson)
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By SHANNON HAUGLAND
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Tuesday’s high temperature of 67 degrees set a Sitka record not only for the day but for the month of March, the National Weather Service reports.
It was the second March record set in two days, said National Weather Service meteorologist Wes Adkins.
Monday’s high of 62 degrees was the hottest day in recorded history for any day in March for Sitka. Then Tuesday’s high of 67 degrees broke that record.
“They have broken new all-time March high temperature records,” he said.
The previous record going back at least 50 years for the hottest day in March here was 61 degrees, set in 1998.
Adkins said the unusually warm weather was caused after the atmospheric river pulled off to the northwest, which allowed a warm high pressure ridge to settle over the area.
“The skies cleared and in place was a high pressure ridge that was very, very warm,” he said. “We’ve had numerous daily high temperature records, and some of them were records for the month.”
He noted the same high pressure ridge was responsible for the 80-degree temperatures earlier this week in Seattle.
Adkins said Petersburg also broke its 1994 record for the month of March with its Monday high of 62 degrees, and the Wednesday high of 63 degrees.
Other all-time March high temperatures were recorded earlier this week in Pelican, Yakutat, Skagway, Auke Bay and Hoonah, NWS said.
Klawock was 70 degrees on Monday, setting a record for the earliest 70-degree day in the state’s history, he added.
Former Northwest Weather Service regional climate program manager Rick Thoman said on his Twitter feed that the Sitka’s 67-degree record on Tuesday was actually the highest temperature any day between Oct. 7 and April 16.
The temperature at press time today was 52 degrees, and the National Weather Service forecast a high temperature on Friday of 52.
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March 2004
Businesses using the Centennial Hall parking lot testified Tuesday against a proposal to charge them rent in addition to the $200 annual permit fee. City Administrator Hugh Bevan made the proposal in response to the Assembly’s direction to Centennial Hall manager Don Kluting to try to close the $340,000 gap between building revenues and operational costs.
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March 1974
Alaska Native Brotherhood Grand President William S. Paul Sr. will be special guest and speaker at the local ANB, Alaska Native Sisterhood Founders Day program Monday at the ANB Hall.