Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

It's not every day a real live cold front comes through. Here are the hourly temperatures from Keystone Ridge. The big plunge was accomp...

The temperature made it above 0F this (Thursday) morning at the Fairbanks Airport for the first time since Dec 4th. The 25 straight days in ...

Playing catch-up here: Oymyakon, in eastern Siberia and a perennial cold spot, had a low temperature on Christmas Eve of -75F. The high temp...

End of the year sunshine on Anvil Mountain, looking north from the Nome Airport, 115pm Wednesday. Photo from the FAA.

The long chill is coming to an end. This mornings GFS (1200 UTC run) shows 2011 starting off with a significant Chinook. More to come.

As of noon Fairbanks Airport is up to -1F...the warmest temperature since Dec 4th. Closer to the Alaska Range, where skies have remained cle...

This morning's inversion is pretty steep, even by Fairbanks standards: 13.6C (25F) degrees in the lowest 100 meters. The Airport dipped ...

204p, Thursday, almost sunset photo from Delta Junction, from the FAA. Meanwhile, back at the Ranch, at 7pm Thursday: North Pole -44F Eiels...

A shallow slope to the inversion Wednesday, thanks to some clouds and flurries. Here on the ridge, this might wind up as the first day of th...

The persistent strong inversion, rather than any extremely cold airmass. The inversion has not been broken by any significant storms, with o...

One of the characteristics of a polar airmass in winter is the fact that the warmest temperatures in the troposphere often occur far above t...

Updated: Noon at Fort Yukon: sunny and 58 below. The AWOS at the Fort Yukon airport reports -60F this morning, after a high temperature of ...

"Black stratus" is the in-house jargon term for low-topped status or stratocumulus that appear darker than surrounding ground on ...

Fairbanks Airport made 41 below Wednesday evening, the first 40 below of the season. Most of the North Pole area was in the mid 40s below, t...

The afternoon RAOB at Fairbanks shows significant cooling between about 100 and 300 meters, with no change at the surface and a little warmi...

The noon sun peaks above the ice fog at Beaver, on the Yukon River. Temperature around 50 below.

It's another inversion plot, you say. Yet it is not so. Two valley station, Fairbanks Airport, and the Angel Creek RAWS, near 53 Mile Ch...

Updated Lows Coldest morning of the season thus far in most valleys around Fairbanks-land. The Airport has been down to 39 below, Fort Wainw...

44 below and a fiery sky at Arctic Village Sunday afternoon. Fort Yukon AWOS was down to 53 below, the lowest reported temperature in the st...

Fort Yukon has the first 50 below of the season in Alaska (I think). The AWOS had 53 below, the RAWS 52 below, the SnoTel 55 below. Take you...