I'm on the road and away from my usual data resources at present, but a quick post is in order to highlight the remarkable National Weather Service forecast for the next few days in Fairbanks:
This morning's NWS forecast for the international airport calls for daily high temperatures below -40° from today through Sunday, i.e. 5 days in row. This hasn't happened since the intense New Year's cold snap at the turn of the century (Dec 30, 1999 through Jan 3, 2000).
The anomaly is even more striking in comparison to the last 15 years: there have only been 2 individual days with a high temperature of -40° or below at the airport since January 2009. Early January 2009 saw 4 straight days with a high of -40° or -41°F.
The Fairbanks record for consecutive days below -40°F is 9 days in December 1961.
Looking farther ahead, there's a distinct glimmer of hope for significant relief in the second week of January:
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