Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

GOES 11 IR image at 730pm ADT Thursday with a nice view of the rapidly deepening storm in the Gulf of Alaska...forecast to deepen below 960m...

The chinook busted through Thursday afternoon in Fairbanks, but on the other side of the Yukon-Tanana uplands it remained chilly. This photo...

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Snow showers Monday evening over the Chukchi Sea at Point Lay.

A few flurries in the Fairbanks area Sunday. Monday morning low temperatures mostly teens and lower. The low of 19F at Keystone Ridge is the...

FAA webcam photos from Anaktuvuk Pass (top) and Arctic Village (bottom) this morning. The snow cover at Arctic Village is from the snow Satu...

6pm Saturday webcam photo from Barrow. Surf's up and a fresh dusting of snow. West wind gusting to 40 mph and pack ice hundreds of miles...

Updated: Beaver Creek RAWS (Southwest of Fort Yukon) reported a low of 5 below this morning, and the Chalkytisk RAWS (actually half way betw...

Looks like many places above 2000' MSL failed to get above freezing today: Eagle Summit 23F, MunsonRidge & Montana Creek DOT 29F, Up...

So today is the 15th straight day with no precipitation and either clear or mostly clear skies. Such streaks occur in late winter, but it se...

Here's a graphic of the 925 mb temp (typically about 2200' above the ground this time of year) during the mega-ridge and the dramati...

The Fairbanks Airport made it to freezing late Wednesday evening, so the date of first freeze goes into the books as Sept 22nd, two weeks la...

Clear skies and bright sunshine, and… Fairbanks Airport Tuesday max temperature 64F, Wednesday 48F McGarth Road (1170' MSL) Tuesday max ...

Summer in Fairbanks ended late Tuesday afternoon when the dry, cloud free cold front blasted thru the area. Temperatures aloft have fallen q...

Frosty webcam shot late Tuesday morning from Ivotuk, southwest of Umiat in the foothills of the Brooks Range.

Flurries the past 24 hours at Deadhorse and Kaktovik. Freeze coming for Fairbanks. Is this the end of summer?

Updated : High temperatures of 60F at both Nome and Kotzebue Sunday are new records for Sept 19th. The mega-ridge lives.

The big ridge aloft that has brought more than a week of sunny and warm weather to much of the Interior is drifting westward and weakening. ...

I just can't resist another gorgeous Denali sunrise shot at 816am Saturday, from the NPS webcam at Wonder Lake:

Snow Friday evening in Bismark, ND, snow on Mt Washington, NH, and Fairbanks awaits the first freeze. So it is with life under the mega-ridg...