Northwest History. Alaska. Science. United States.

• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1936
• Subjects: Alaska; Weather Conditions and Climate; Northwest; Pacific > History > 20th Century; United States. > Alaska > 20th Century; Pacific; eskimo*; midnight sun
• Online Access: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/clipping/id/102323

Eskimos Swelter: Mercury Reaches 106 Degrees ESKIMOS SWELTER Mercury Reaches 106 Degrees SEWARD, Alaska, July 20. — (I. N.S.) — The often laughed-at story of "selling straw hats to the Eskimos," isn't so funny in this section of Alaska today, following an unprecedented heat wave. Starting early in June the torrid wave has gripped this section, unbroken except for a few days of light rain about June 15, and ' still continuing. The highest temperature in this region was 106 degrees reported in the Kenai Valley, July 6. So intense has been the heat that, "spuds" planted May IS, already have been harvested. Settlers, to escape the intense daylight heat, have been taking advantage of the midnight sun to work their fields.