Here are a couple of quick illustrations of the lack of winter that some parts of Alaska are having. First, Nome's mean temperature is running at second warmest on record both since November 1 and since December 1.
Remarkably, about a third of days since December 1 have seen a high temperature at or above freezing - including the last 3 days, and 7 of 12 days so far this month!
Down in Anchorage, it's a top-10 warm winter so far, but the lack of snow is the real story. With only 4.3 inches of snow since December 1, it's the least snowy winter (Dec-Feb) on record so far - although we mustn't forget that there was heavy snow at the very beginning of the season:
https://ak-wx.blogspot.com/2024/11/more-snow-in-anchorage.html
A lengthy spell of daily data is missing from last winter, unfortunately, but we know it was extremely snowy - the second snowiest on winter for the entire cold season.
The following chart shows the remarkable absence of meaningful snow after that early initial dump. It's quite bizarre.
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