By Beverley Mitchell, Source: Inhabitat

Think Alaska is too cold for you? Well, it seems that average fall temperatures there are increasing at a rapid rate. The most northerly community in the U.S., the town of Barrow, Alaska, has recorded an incredible 12.96 degree Fahrenheit (7.2 degrees Celsius) increase in its average October temperature over the 34 years from 1979 to 2012. The team from the University of Alaska Fairbanks who made the discovery also observed that the most notable average temperature increases in summer and fall correlated with significant losses in sea ice concentrations.

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