Alaska
A 65-degree-Farenheight (18-degree-Celsius) day in December may actually sound pretty pleasant—until you find out that temperature was recorded in Alaska. That record temperature, recorded near Alaska’s Kodiak airport, was 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) higher than the state’s previous December all-time high. Though the temperature on its own is shocking, it also meant precipitation fell as rain. A lot of it. The state had one of its heaviest two-day periods of rain on record, with up to 20 inches (51 centimeters) falling and overwhelming infrastructure.
