“Every single October since 2001, Barrow has been significantly warmer than normal – every single one,” he said. “There’s nothing like this in the historical record going back a century.”

source: http://fm.kuac.org/post/january-2016-crazy-warm-winter-weather-record-setting-sparse-arctic-sea-ice-formation

'Fairbanks isn’t the only chilly place in Alaska. Average temperatures at 19 of 20 long-term National Weather Service stations displayed a cooling trend from 2000 to 2010, according a recent study written up by Gerd Wendler, Blake Moore and Lian Chen of the Alaska Climate Research Center.'

“This trend was caused by a change in sign of the Pacific Decadal Oscillation,” Wendler, Blake and Chen wrote in their paper, “The First Decade of the New Century: A Cooling Trend for Most of Alaska.”

'Barrow was the only station didn’t show a cooling trend, warming 1.7 degrees Celsius during the decade of study.'

'King Salmon was the other extreme, with 2.9 degrees C of cooling from 2000-2010.'

http://www.gi.alaska.edu/alaska-science-forum/alaska-bucks-global-temperature-trend

Nothing in your story about the Pacific Decadal Oscillation.