Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Fearless Fathauer has left the building. It's official, Ted has retired : Ted helped me get my first job in Alaska and I've lear...

Here is a plot of hourly temperatures Sunday at a handful of sites in greater Fairbanks-land. The low lying areas such has Goldstream C...

Temperatures Sunday morning have boomed into the 40s in Denali Park area with pretty decent chinook underway. Peak winds so far include 58 m...

Courtesy of the Weather Underground For those familiar with the Delta Junction area, the plot at the left from the Weather Underground n...

The big warm-up the numerical models have been advertizing for a week is here. The upper air sounding from early Saturday morning already ha...

As we await the Great 2012-13 Mid-Winter Warm-up, here's a quick and easy way of assessing  daily inversion strength in Fairbanks-land o...

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 145 PM AKST TUE DEC 25 2012 ...CHRISTMAS DAY IN FAIRBANKS... CHRISTMA...

Temperatures popped above zero early Christmas morning in the Fairbanks bowl, with no return to the deep cold anytime soon. Here's an ...

Courtesy of NWS Alaska Region Winds aloft are now southerly over most of Interior Alaska. This is both warming the airmass and brought s...

SXAK79 PAFG 230543 RERAFG RECORD EVENT REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 843 PM AKST SAT DEC 22 2012 ...RECORD LOW TEMPERATURES...

Courtesy NWS Alaska Region Here's a very nice NOAA-18 infrared image from 542am AST Saturday. Except for some clouds over the southe...

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRBANKS AK 339 PM AKST FRI DEC 21 2012 ...A COLD WINTER SOLSTICE IN INTERIOR ALASK...

Here's a plot of hourly temperatures in the past 24 hours for Goldstream Creek, College Hills and Keystone Ridge, representing low, m...

Thursday evening I was amused by various Facebook posts with someone somewhere forecasting a low of 60 below for this morning at Fort Wain...

It's another brittle morning in Fairbanks-land, with temperatures in the 30s and 40s below in the valleys, and even most hill sites near...

Here are daily mean temperatures and associated anomaly plots for Fairbanks for 2012. Recall that the shaded area on the top plot is one s...

Valley temperatures have moderated a bit around Fairbanks, though hill temperatures have leveled out. To the left is a plot of the tempera...

Fairbanks-land inversions continue to grow early Monday evening: at 6pm, it was above zero in the warmest higher elevations and still in the...

Temperatures have started to rise above the valley floor in Fairbanks-land. On the right are plots of the temperature in the lowest 1000 m...

View from UAF West Ridge Sunday, Dec 16, 2012 Updated : Through 8am Monday the low temperature at Fairbanks Airport has been 48 below....