Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Here's a plot of the daily average temperature at Fairbanks since Oct 01. For what I usually refer to as "mid-winter", Decembe...

Here's the updated plot of standardized daily temperature departures for this winter (through Feb 24) at Fairbanks. While not extreme th...

Arctic sea ice is within a few weeks of it's maximum extent. Here is the Alaska-centered view from the University of Illinois's Cryo...

A lovely late February day at Arctic Village: sunny and 13 below at 1pm

Keystone Ridge through noon Wednesday: 1.4inches of snow melted down to 0.03" water. Snow so fluffy you can see through it. :)

Here's the morning sounding from Fairbanks, showing a strong inversion. At 9am, Goldstream Creek was -14F and Keystone Ridge +20F. Solar...

The monthly mean temperature in January at the Fairbanks Airport was 30.8F lower than the December mean, This is the largest drop between De...

Clear skies overnight have allowed a strong inversion to develop this morning. At 8am, -10F in Goldstream Creek and +24F here on Keystone Ri...

The average temperature at the Fairbanks Airport the first two weeks of February was +5.6F. This is about 10 degrees above normal, but is on...

A pretty morning Thursday at Mentasta Pass on the Glenn Highway, south of Tok. Photo from the FAA webcam.

Here's the 3am AST Monday sounding from Fairbanks Airport, showing a very sharp surface inversion. That's a temperature of +4F at gr...

Now that the next "warm phase" of the winter is well underway for Interior Alaska, here's an updated plot of standardized dail...

Here's the Monday 11am AST GOES-15 infrared image. This nicely show the high aloft centered over the Yukon (with a small low embedded ne...

Here's an updated plot of daily average temperatures this winter at Fairbanks. The mild weather now in place will be modulated in the va...

Cold Snap 2012 has come to an end, with nearly all of northern Alaska now above zero. Here's a UCAR plot of observations from 11am AST S...

Here's a plot of hourly temperatures at Keystone Ridge since Wednesday. Find the time of frontal passage. The drop from 25F at 8pm to -1...

Here's an abridged version of the statement highlighting the monthly records. The full version (for a while) is here . NOAK49 PAFG 01205...

Furiously warming aloft since mid-day Tuesday. The morning sounding tells the story. At 6am Wednesday, Cleary Summit+3F, Fairbanks Airport -...

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. ...