The climate of the interior of Alaska

The climate of the interior of Alaska is subarctic. Some of the highest and lowest temperatures in Alaska occur around the area near

Fairbanks. The summers may have temperatures reaching into the 90s °F (the low-to-mid 30s °C), while in the winter, the temperature can fall

below −60 °F (−51 °C). Precipitation is sparse in the Interior, often less than 10 in (25 cm) a year, but what precipitation falls in the winter tends to stay the entire winter.

The highest and lowest recorded temperatures in Alaska are both in the Interior. The highest is 100 °F (38 °C) in Fort Yukon (which is just 8 mi

or 13 km inside the arctic circle) on June 27, 1915,[25][26] making Alaska tied with Hawaii as the state with the lowest high temperature in the United States.[27][28] The lowest official Alaska temperature is −80 °F (−62 °C) in Prospect Creek on

January 23, 1971,[25][26] one degree above the lowest temperature recorded in continental North America (in Snag, Yukon, Canada).[29]