Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Here's the Fairbanks sounding from Wednesday afternoon, showing a nice elevated inversion. Temperatures were up into the upper teens t...

Courtesy of Alaska Climate Research Center The sun is getting higher each day but still is not  high enough to do much to break the surf...

Fairbanks-land inversions continue to grow early Monday evening: at 6pm, it was above zero in the warmest higher elevations and still in the...

Temperatures have started to rise above the valley floor in Fairbanks-land. On the right are plots of the temperature in the lowest 1000 m...

Weather the past several weeks over Interior Alaska has been dominated by surface high pressure, with clear skies much of the time. Also,...

After diminishing for about 12 hours late Thursday night and Friday morning, winds picked back up Friday afternoon, and in spite of clear sk...

Furiously warming aloft since mid-day Tuesday. The morning sounding tells the story. At 6am Wednesday, Cleary Summit+3F, Fairbanks Airport -...

Steep inversions are the rule this time of year in Interior Alaska, but this is not one of those times. The afternoon sounding reveals a mor...

Here's an updated plot of the inversion, with the Saturday afternoon sounding plotted along with the morning data.

The last 24 hours have featured a textbook example of the impact of clouds on valley temperatures in Interior Alaska in winter. Here is a pl...

Today's RAOBS series show only a little bit of cooling at the surface between 3am and 3pm, but more substantial cooling above about 200...