Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

The late season heatwave is building, and with the clear skies and deepening darkness, a decent summer inversion developed. Low temp this mo...

Like most of western North America, dew points above 60F are quite unusual in northern and Interior Alaska. At Fairbanks, sustained dew poin...

The month is not quite over, but July looks to wind up with above normal precip over much of northern Alaska, with near record rainfall in t...

Today's official record high in Fairbanks is 99F in 1919, the highest temperature of record and the second warmest ever in Alaska. I am ...

Info on the rainfall in the eastern Interior... PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 1119 PM AKDT MON JUL 26 2...

The extreme heat of early July returned late last week to Siberia. Yakutsk, the largest city in central Siberia (population 186,00 according...

Since I'm on the theme of changes in late summer in the Interior, here's another one. Hot days are concentrated near and not long af...

As we move into the last week of July, temperatures are beginning the long fall to winter. The chart shows the average daily temperature in ...

Wednesday was the 9th consecutive day with measurable rain here at Keystone Ridge. The wet season is right on schedule. To the left is a plo...

Between 3 and 4pm ADT the Fairbanks Airport ASOS reported 1.15 inches of rain from a thunderstorm. This is an all-time 1 hour precip amount ...

One month beyond the Summer Solstice, and the lowering sun is becoming more evident. In Fairbanks its getting dim, and over the next few day...

The view from UAF West Ridge Tuesday evening about 10pm. The CBs in the distance did result in thunder at the airport around midnight

The record breaking heat in Asia has had some press, and now it is spilling over into eastern Europe. Jeff Masters over at Weather Undergrou...

Here is the updated sea ice analysis, from Sunday, May 18th

A series of thunderstorms in the Fairbanks area Saturday evening brought copious rain and unusually widespread hail. Rainfall amounts exceed...

Soaking rain in northwest Alaska as closed low aloft drops SE from north of Siberian coast; 24 hour totals include 1.35" Dall Creek nea...

Low of 35F this morning in Tanana tied the record low for the date, last set in 1936. Bettles low of 36F was a degree from the record. Ruby ...

Here is the view of the Arctic Basin sea ice coverage from last Saturday from The University of Illinois. Of note is the large area near the...

Persistent west winds have pushed some ice back on the shoreline at Barrow. Last week there was no ice at all visible.

In the fairly narrow clear area between a front moving east across the West Coast and clouds from the old occlusion from the Gulf, it was a ...