“No matter how tech savvy you are, if your Internet’s out, you can’t get it.”

Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, regarding the National Weather Service’s decision to end “Alaska Weather,” a program designed for those living in rural and largely roadless Alaska, after 47 years of daily broadcasting. Moving forward, the program will only be available on YouTube, which some residents worry about accessing due to unreliable Internet service. (Associated Press — June 28, 2023)