Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Barrow looking north, Sunday 1030am. Courtesy of UAF Sea Ice Group The mean temperature for the first 27 days of October at Barrow has b...

Dawn Saturday at Lake Minchumina, courtesy of the FAA For the first 26 days of October, here are the average temperature departures from...

Courtesy of Pro Music Here's a view from Friday afternoon from the Pro Music webcam looking south across the Chena River in downtown...

If Tuesday morning's inversion was lackluster by Interior Alaska standards, Wednesday morning's sounding looks a lot more like wha...

The surface based temperature inversion was fairly underwhelming at 3am Tuesday, as shown in the plot on the left: only about 9ºC in 1000 ...

Arctic Village Monday afternoon. Courtesy of the FAA Fairbanks Airport reported a low of 5 below Monday morning, the first sub-zero...

Courtesy of UAF's Alaska Climate Research Center Friday evening a few of the normally cold spots nicked just below zero, but this su...

The Fairbanks area received three to five inches of snow over the course of several days early this week, with the result that everywhere ...

After a mild start, October temperatures having been running below normal mid-month. Here's the 2012 plot of daily standardized temper...

Here's a webcam photo taken Saturday morning from Pro Music looking south across the Chena River in downtown Fairbanks. As you can see...

Continuing on the thread that Richard of Georgia asked of "Do October temperatures have predictive value value for the upcoming winter?...

It helps to have snow on the ground to get temperatures down below zero, but you don't need it. A number of places got that cold this mo...

For the first time in nearly a century of instrumented weather observations at Barrow, the average temperature for the first ten days of Oct...

Richard from Georgia asked about the correlation of temperatures in October to the following winter. As a first crack at answering this, t...

Fairbanks is still waiting for the first measurable snow of the autumn, and it's getting quite late in the season to still be waiting ...

Central, Alaska. Courtesy of the FAA Updated : Fairbanks was soaked Sunday night and Monday with about three quarters of an inch of rai...

Courtesy of UAF Sea Ice Group The temperature at Barrow on Friday reached 41F at Barrow, breaking the previous record of 39F set in 1925...

Here's a webcam shot from Friday morning at Ivotuk, a research site southwest in the Brooks Range of Umiat at about 2000 feet elevatio...

Temperatures rose into the 50s and lower 60s in southern Interior Alaska on Thursday. The high at Fairbanks Airport of 61F was just a degree...

An innocuous looking cloud mass associated with weak closed low aloft brought heavy snow to a small area in far eastern Interior Sunday into...