Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Amazing what sunshine and temperatures in the 60s and 70s (and lows near 50ºF) will do to a snowpack. By Sunday evening the snow pack here o...

The cold spring over Interior Alaska is fading into the past now as "insta-summer is upon us: the high was 77ºF at Fairbanks on Saturda...

Fairbanks topped out at 71ºF Friday, the first day the temperature has been 70 or higher since August 30th. With a morning low of 40ºF, the ...

Reader Richard asked about snowmelt on Keystone Ridge. Here's a photo from Wednesday evening, May 22nd. As you can see, there is still...

Courtesy of the Nenana Ice Classic At 1142pm AKST (1241pm AKDT) Monday the tripod on the Tanana River at Nenana was still standing (as s...

Courtesy of Pro Music  The high temperature at Fairbanks Saturday of 35ºF is the lowest so late in the season and the latest date of r...

Interior Alaska's long cold spell will come to and end this week, so here's an update on daily temperatures (through Saturday, May 1...

1030am May 18th, courtesy of the Nenana Ice Classic I will not be able to keep track of them all, but here are some low temperatures re...

As previously mentioned, the coldest airmass so late in the season is moving into Fairbanks-land. This is based on the period of record for ...

Long time Fairbanksians have been comparing this spring to 1992. That spring was much snowier than this year, but this year is colder. So I ...

Lots of record lows and record low max temperatures in the Interior Monday and Tuesday. Here's some records (slightly reworded) from the...

Courtesy of the FAA The sun might shining 20+ hours a day now in the Brooks Range, but winter lives. Some of the higher elevation statio...

The remaining winter snowpack was down to 1" as of late Saturday evening at the Fairbanks Airport. Here's a plume diagram of spring...

Here's an update of daily mean temperatures in Fairbanks for 2013. As usual, the gray shading is plus or minus one standard deviation fr...

The pattern is definitely changing and spring is on the way to Fairbanks-land this week. Here's the 500mb heights from the Sunday mo...

Amidst  the cold temperatures, this week has been persistently snowy, at least in parts of the area. This morning's view from Keystone R...

Here's a try at an explanation of why it was so cold in April in Fairbanks and much of Alaska. First, here's the mean 500 mb heigh...

There is a lot of Alaska weather going on...but we'll try and take it one piece at time. So, for Fairbanks for April, the mean tempera...

There will be a lot to write about once April is in the books, but for now here's something to chew on. April is going to finish up as t...

Courtesy of Pro Music, Fairbanks Updated with additional observations and faciods… Temperatures dropped to near zero overnight. The lo...