To be fair, they did OK on 2012-13 and 2013-14 even though they hosed 2009-12. NAtl blocking and the one-eyed pig...the two variables hardest to predict.
More Bering Sea than AK/NWT proper though...still tending toward higher heights in E AK/Yukon relative to Bering Sea. Let's keep it from getting any farther E though.
hmmm, add in all the low salinity ocean water from melting Greenland...thermohaline slowdown...what that does to the dipole or tripole in the Atlantic...anybody's guess.
And actually the famous Sahara "triangle of fire" (Reggane, Adrar and In Salah, Algeria) was 109F today (and the last few days), quite a bit below their normal of 117. The hot air got pulled up into Spain then France.
Paris-Montsouris (a park in the southern part of the city within the peripherique (city boundary) recorded 42.4 deg C (108.3 F) at 3:20 pm local time today