Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

The sun is shining brilliantly in Arctic Village today, but the temperature is holding steady at around -17 °F after an earlier low of -26 °...

Interior Alaska finally caught up with the season yesterday and last night, as temperatures dropped rapidly in many locations to levels more...

[Updated to include Anchorage temperature at the forecast office, which is the official climate observing site - thanks Rick] Below are ma...

With the imminent arrival of single digit temperatures (and below) in Interior Alaska, I put together a map of the average and latest dates ...

The SNPP day night imagery (VIIRS sensor) caught a nice image of the aurora yesterday evening traversing the region between Eagle, Fairbanks...

My apologies to those who have had enough of this topic, but I think I've finally arrived at a more satisfactory answer to the question ...

Another October has come and gone, and that means that once again Barrow had a very warm October: the average temperature was 24.7ºF, which ...

Here's the October summary from the National Weather Service in Fairbanks: PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FAIRB...

Yesterday's post on snow cover and temperature prompted an interesting question from reader Eric about whether the data really showed wh...

* Updated at bottom for clarity Last week a discussion erupted regarding the calculation of average temperatures. Here is a little light r...

Temperatures in Fairbanks continue to run far above normal, as illustrated by the fact that this morning's 5 a.m. temperature of 19 °F i...

Through October 28th, the daily average temperature in Fairbanks has been warmer than normal for 26 of the 28 days. One way to describe the ...

The warm, rainy conditions across interior Alaska have broken a number of longstanding records; here are a few, and I'm sure Rick and Br...

A powerful southerly flow of air aloft is once again transporting extremely warm air for the time of year up to Alaska.  The morning balloon...

Several of tomorrow's temperature records in Fairbanks are relatively easy to break. The low minimum record of -17 is only 1.97 standard...

Fairbanks has just passed the date on the calendar when the climatological average diurnal range (the difference between the daily high and ...

In a rapid response to the cooler - though still much warmer than normal - conditions, ice has begun to form on inland waterways across nort...

It appears that Fairbanks has recorded its first day this season with a high temperature at or below freezing. This is a full two weeks late...

Surface temperatures have cooled off quite a bit across the eastern interior in the past couple of days, with overnight minimum temperatures...

Here are a few statistics that illustrate just how extremely unusual the recent warm spell has been across Alaska and northwestern Canada:...