The first 100 days of 2016 in Anchorage have been the warmest on record, according to the National Weather Service.
Most communities in Alaska also experienced above-normal temperatures almost every day between Jan. 1 and April 9, according to Rick Thoman, climate science and services manager for the Weather Service's Anchorage region.
Cordova measured above-normal temperatures 98 days out of the first 100 of 2016, Eagle 93 and Bettles 91.
"Statewide, it's been extremely mild since Christmastime," Thoman said. "Every place is extremely warm."
Anchorage's new record came with a 31.1-degree average temperature over that 100-day period.
The last several years don't hold a similar distinction. This year's average temperature through April is just six-tenths of a degree higher than next warmest average: 30.5 degrees in 1981. The third warmest average temperature in the year's first 100 days came in 1977.
Climate scientists don't expect to see a year-to-year trend because of variabilities in weather on a smaller scale, Thoman said. Warming patterns appear over longer periods, he said.
The Weather Service report of Anchorage's record isn't without controversy.
A post on the agency's Twitter feed drew at least one climate-change critic: "actual temperatures or, the adjusted to make the world is going to end numbers?"
The Weather Service responded that the readings are the "official values taken from actual (non-adjusted) thermometers."
The agency has been tracking temperatures at Anchorage's airport since 1952.