The state, which previously issued information about high temperatures using special weather statement, has issued its first heat advisory.

It’s not the first instance of unusually high temperatures in Alaska, but using the heat advisory label could help convey the weather’s severity.

In the high glare of a summer evening in Fairbanks, Alaska, Ciara Santiago watched the mercury climb. A meteorologist at the National Weather Service office, she had the dubious honor of issuing the state’s first ever official heat advisory as temperatures were expected to hit the mid-80s.