Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

I'll have a lot to say about the cold January stats, but in the meantime, a big, big change is on the way. Here's the Canadian GEM f...

Nice post today from the University of Wisconsin CIMSS blog on satellite derived temperatures over the past couple days in Interior Alaska. ...

Here's the plot of low level temperatures from Fairbanks. It continues to oh so slowly warm aloft. At 10am AST, Cleary Summit was up to ...

Updated: Cooperative observations in the past 12 hours add more definition to the cold: Low temperatures Saturday include: Galena: -63F (coo...

The high temperature today was just 42 below at the Airport, the lowest daily high temperature since Jan 2, 2000. The afternoon sounding sho...

Here's a plot of daily temperatures (high and low temperatures at the top and bottom of the bars) at the Fairbanks Airport since Christm...

The sunrise view from the Alaska Climate Research Center webcam Saturday morning. Fairbanks Airport has now been down to -50F. The first -50...

Okay, now it's getting seriously cold. Here's at NOAA-19 infrared, this capture from the UAF Swath Viewer . This B & W rendition...

Scott Bachmeier sent a link to this false color infrared image from early Friday morning (I've reoriented the original image to be long...

The 320am NOAA-19 Polar Orbiter infrared image shows it is cold over the western Interior. Fairbanks is near one of the last remaining areas...

FAA webcam image from Barrow Tuesday after with thin ice fog and 35 below: Low temperatures so far Tuesday: Barrow -45F Deadhorse Airport: -...

Here's an updated plot of daily mean temperatures thus far this winter (through January 23rd). The winds and clouds the past few days ha...

Here's a plot of the low level temperatures from Friday morning and Sunday morning. The airmass overall has cooled a bit, but the wind h...

Here's a plot of temperatures and winds from Fort Yukon Saturday. Fort Yukon is an AWOS and reports a full observation every 20 minutes....

Nice infrared image from 1pm Thursday from the NOAA-19 Polar Orbiter showing lots of clouds on the North Slope and pushed up into north side...

Here's the 3pm sounding from Fairbanks. The inversion is growing. Temperatures above 2300' MSL have approached 0F today, and I expec...

Through the first 16 days of January, the average temperature at the Fairbanks Airport was -25.8F, almost 18 degrees below normal. Temperatu...

Here's the 9am AST Monday surface analysis from NWS Anchorage, showing a big high covering much of mainland Alaska. The coldest weather ...

Here's the lowest kilometer of the morning sounding at Fairbanks: the inversion is growing. Notice that right off the surface the invers...

Here are a couple of updates from the past couple days. Temperatures are about as stable as can be with clear skies and light winds here on ...