Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Last week I alluded to the linkage between the Pacific Decadal Oscillation and seasonal snowfall in Anchorage, with a negative PDO phase oft...

Anchorage has seen another big snow event this week, occurring three weeks after the record (for January) snowstorm earlier in the month.  T...

Many readers will have heard that an oil field accident occurred on the North Slope on Friday, as a very large mobile oil drilling rig tippe...

Now that the weather has calmed down, it's a good time to look back at a couple of aspects of the cold spell in Fairbanks. First, I'...

Dramatically warmer conditions are on their way north and will bring major relief from western and interior Alaska's deep freeze in the ...

Back on December 18, I commented that the extreme cold then affecting northwestern Canada and far eastern Alaska looked likely to shift wes...

First, before discussing again the extreme interior cold, I would be remiss not to mention the remarkable snowfall in northern Southeast Ala...