ANCHORAGE – 
 
 A 101-year-old record was broken in Alaska Thursday — a high of 71 degrees was recorded in southeast Alaska, beating a record set in 1915. 
 
 The high temperature was recorded in Klawock, located northwest of Ketchikan on Prince of Wales Island. 
 
 The National Weather Service called it the “warmest official temp in Alaska in March.” The previous record was 69 degrees in Ketchikan. 
 
 Klawock wasn’t the only spot in the southeast Alaska setting records Thursday. 
 
 Juneau, Yakutat, Sitka and Ketchikan all set new record high temperatures for March 31, ranging from 65 degrees in Ketchikan to 57 degrees in Yakutat. 
 
 March 2016 had the warmest monthly average temperature on record for Juneau, Sitka, Klawock, Haines, Petersburg, Skagway and Ketchikan. 
 
 The high today of 71F at Klawock is, preliminarily, the warmest official temp in Alaska in March. Old record 69F Ketchikan in 1915. #akwx — NWS Alaska Region (@NWSAlaska) April 1, 2016 ||||| Starting in 1996, Alexa Internet has been donating their crawl data to the Internet Archive. Flowing in every day, these data are added to the Wayback Machine after an embargo period.
– Alaska has experienced some unusual natural phenomena lately—including a burping volcano and a desperate need for snow—and it just took another turn into some more weather-related weirdness. Per the Alaska Dispatch News, the mercury at an airport in Southeast Alaska registered at 71 degrees on Thursday, which University of Alaska Fairbanks climate scientist Brian Brettschneider says set a record high for temps in March, beating out a peak of 69 degrees set in March 1915. "The fact that it's March—it's pretty amazing," a National Weather Service meteorologist in Juneau says. "It's a big deal." What scientists say has brought on this thermometer-busting breach in Klawock, which KTVA notes is northwest of Ketchikan on Prince of Wales Island, is a high-pressure ridge that Brettschneider tells the Dispatch News is "basically [like we] had a June or July air mass move in in March. If we had June or July sun, it would have been 80 degrees, but we didn't." Other towns have similarly recorded record highs, and the warm weather is, as of now, anticipated to continue through May. (Alaska also just had the weirdest murder plot in a while.)