While the warmest readings compared to normal were in the north, there was no measurable snow in Anchorage, which had happened only once before. Off Alaska’s west coast, Bering Sea ice reached a record-low extent for the month.

March was a month full of record temperatures across Alaska:

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Deadhorse posted one of the most remarkable records for the month. Its March temperature was about 25 degrees above normal, which is the biggest temperature departure ever recorded during March in the United States. That anomaly surpassed the Circle Hot Springs, Alaska, record of 20.9 degrees above normal set in 1965. Deadhorse was just one of many Alaska locations that recorded March temperatures at least 20 degrees above normal.

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While the atypically mild conditions were centered in the northern part of Alaska throughout March, as they have tended to do in recent history, just about the entire state finished much warmer than normal.

Coastal areas of southern Alaska saw temperatures closest to normal, and those locations were still about five to 10 degrees above normal on average.

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Anchorage, which was snowless in March and hasn’t seen any since Feb. 21, may have seen its earliest final accumulating snow on record by several weeks, according to climatologist Brian Brettschneider.

In southeast Alaska, temperatures were close to normal, but that region remains in the grip of a long-lasting drought that has worsened somewhat in recent weeks.

Much of the region has been locked between low pressure to its west and high pressure to its east, conditions remained extraordinarily favorable to keep the Bering Sea full of open water. Storminess was frequent in that region and into western Alaska.

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In the end, March ended up setting a record for lack of ice on the Bering Sea. This new low-ice record comes on the heels of a startling 2018, which witnessed a massive drop-off in ice levels, compared with the past. This year seems to show that the extraordinary readings of 2017 are not an anomaly in this region of a rapidly changing climate.