Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

A cool airmass is in place over much of the Interior Alaska this Halloween morning. Over a small portion of the western Interior, skies clea...

Snowfall at the Fairbanks airport on Sunday was 1.0 inches. This is the first day with an inch or more of snow this season, and three weeks ...

Oymyakon, one of the notorious cold spots in eastern Siberia, reported a low Sunday morning (Siberia time, OCT 30th UTC) of -42F. This is th...

The Sea Ice cam at Barrow was out of service for quite a while, but it's back now. Here's an image from 10 AM Saturday from the UAF ...

The power of the waning sunshine was in evident Friday in Fairbanks-land. With no winds and no more than some cirrus, the morning inversion ...

Mild air aloft, clear skies and a thin but continuous snow cover allowed for a strong inversion to develop overnight. Here is a plot of temp...

It looks like there was area between Healy and Nenana that received a decent snowfall Wednesday. The Clear Sky Lodge Coop site, near Mile 28...

A vigorous storm plowed across the western Gulf of Alaska Monday night and early Tuesday. The 10AM ADT surface analysis from the Ocean Predi...

Arctic Village Sunday morning, as seen from the FAA webcam. The low ground fog probably indicates a little open water remains...though with ...

Now that there is a thin but continuous snowpack, the inversion growing season is well underway in Fairbanks-land. Clear skies overnight all...

Here's a couple of plots showing how the 1981-2010 normals that became effective August 1st have changed from the 1971-2000 normals at a...

I had not posted on this before due to conflicting data, but now this has been cleared up. The first measurable snow for Fairbanks was on Th...

Here's a plot of temperatures thus far in 2011 at Fairbanks. I've plotted the mean daily temperature against the 1980-2010 normals a...

Warm advection snow associated with the storm centered near the Bering Straits overspread central Interior Alaska Thursday morning. Here on ...

With a low of 19F this morning, Fairbanks will have the first day this autumn with a mean temperature below freezing today, October 12th. Th...

It isn't just Fairbanks-land that's suffering from a dearth of snow. Here's a lovely morning photo (courtesy of the FAA) from Ar...

A tight low aloft produced a small area of snow showers in the far southeast Interior on Saturday. Here is a dramatic looking photo from the...

Snow is getting closer to Fairbanks. There was a report of eight inches of snow at Summit Lake (on the Richardson Highway), elevation 3200...

Alessio Gusmeroli, PhD, Postdoctoral Fellow at the UAF Geophyscial Institute took this photo on Sunday, October 2nd near Twelve Mile Summit ...

Clear skies overnight allowed valley temperatures to fall to the lowest levels of the autumn thus far. Lows included: Goldstream Creek: 15F ...