The inversion has grown this morning, with temperatures in the cold valley bottoms not much above zero and the hills not much below freezing.
Yesterday the inversion broke, with temperatures by late afternoon basically isothermal in the lowest few thousand feet. The graphic shows the temperature trace from the Fairbanks
RAOB at 3am
At 9am the variation looked like this:
Salcha River
RAWS: 0F
Chena Hot Springs: +3F
Woodsmoke (North Pole area): +4F
Goldstream Creek: +5F
Fairbanks Airport : +8F
Meanwhile, on the hills:
Cleary Summit: 32F
McGrath Road: 32F
Stuart Creek
RAWS: 32F
Keystone Ridge: 31F
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