Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Here's the plot of low level temperatures over the past week from a weather station located off the trail behind the IARC Building on ...

News Years Eve noontime sunshine and 26 below at Fort Yukon. Photo courtesy of the FAA.

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 949 AM AKST SAT DEC 31 2011 COLD MORNING IN INTERIOR ALASKA... A COLD AIR...

The Environment Canada 500mb analysis valid 3am Saturday Dec 31 2011 shows the cold closed low just west of Nome, with a weaker center near ...

A cold airmass covers mainland Alaska today, with temperatures mostly 20 below or lower. Through noon Friday the lowest temperatures have be...

It was 50 year ago today, Sergeant Pepper taught the band to play... Opps, wrong event. It was 50 year ago today though that one of the grea...

The afternoon sounding from Fairbanks shows reasonably deep cold air, with the entire sounding colder than minus 20C. I've plotted this...

The airmass has finally cooled in earnest in Fairbanks-land, and the effects are showing as skies clear (technical: 12Z 850mb temp -26.7C, 1...

Interesting inversion on the Monday afternoon sounding from Fairbanks, with four distinct layers evident in the lowest 1000 meters. The inve...

Skies cleared in the Fairbanks early Monday morning, allowing for strong valley cooling. Here is the NOAA-19 polar orbiter infrared image ta...

To no one's surprise, it's another white Christmas in Fairbanks: snow depth at 3am Sunday was 12 inches (photo of Pioneer Park in wi...

Here's the WeatherUnderground Plot of temperature (and dew point) at the Two Rivers PWS near 24 Mile Chena Hot Springs Road. The tempera...

Skies cleared Friday evening, and with the cooler airmass in place temperatures have returned to something like normal. Low temperatures Sat...

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 124 AM AKST THU DEC 22 2011 THE AVERAGE TEMPERATURE AT THE FAIRBANKS INTE...

The warm pattern that has been in place since November 30th is coming to an end, to replaced by chilly, though not super cold temperatures. ...

Here's a composite image of winter (Oct 1-Mar 31) Fairbanks daily mean normalized temperature departures from normal for winters 2008-09...

Here's an updated plot of normalized daily temperature departures for 2011. The unrelenting mild weather of December is starting to riva...

Soundings from Fairbanks Sunday show the extreme warmth: High temperatures Sunday include: Woodsmoke PWS: 40F (near North Pole) Eielson AFB:...

A deep storm west of Kodiak Island has brought another Sunday Chinook to Interior Alaska. Here's the 3AM AST Sunday surface analysis fro...

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