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Weather in the Kenai Fjords area was dominated by sunny skies for most of March, resulting in another month of below normal precipitation. Near mid-month, a week of storms added snow to the snowpack, but not nearly the amount required to bring snow depths up to normal. March was the third month in a row to experience an above normal monthly average temperature. This continues the warmer-than-normal trend we have been experiencing since June 2013 (with the exception of December, which was colder than normal and August which was normal).
- The National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center's three month weather outlook (April-May-June) favors above- normal temperatures and normal precipitation for the Kenai Fjords area.
- The journal Geophysical Research Letters published new research indicating that the Arctic melt season is increasing by five days per decade.
- A March 11th press release from NASA reports that climate change will likely continue as predicted, despite the recent slowdown in the rate of global warming.
- Research published in Global Change Biology reports that moose are adapting to warmer temperatures by using thermal shelters in the boreal forest. The report also identifies 68°F as the threshold beyond which moose behavior changes significantly.
- Check out the National Snow and Ice Data Center’s new website, Satellite Observations of Arctic Change (SOAC) to explore how conditions in the Arctic have changed over time.
- The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has released a media-rich website and white paper to share key messages about climate change.
- Check out NOAA’s website to learn more about the challenges presented by climate change and ocean acidification to fisheries.
- The journal Conservation reports on recent research looking at how changes to the timing of snow cover affect animals (i.e., snowshoe hare) that turn white to camouflage during the winter.
- NOAA climate services portal serves as a single point-of-entry for NOAA's extensive climate information, data, products, services, and the climate science magazine ClimateWatch.