Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Brian's post the other day raised some intriguing questions about the relationship between snow depth and snow totals in Fairbanks.  Th...

Below are maps showing the November temperature and precipitation anomalies at some primary observing stations across the state.  The area ...

* Updated with additional chart* Something that I have noticed over the last several years is a disconnect between the season-to-date snow...

After the wettest November since 1970, and the fifth wettest of record, year-to-date precipitation in Fairbanks is now only slightly below-n...

[Update 5 pm AKST: this afternoon's sounding from Fairbanks showed an inversion of 31.7 °C or 57 °F as warming continued aloft.  This ha...

Here's the November weather summary from the National Weather Service in Fairbanks. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERV...

According to a News-Miner article on Wednesday, an anemometer atop the GVEA administration building in Fairbanks recorded a peak wind gust ...

Here are the daily temperature and precipitation records for Alaska on Thanksgiving day.

Since tomorrow is Thanksgiving, it is a good time to see how Thanksgivings of years past have fared for Alaska's three largest cities. T...

Six months have now passed since the dramatic late spring reversal in Fairbanks temperature anomalies, from persistently below-normal to mos...

In view of recent freezing rain in Fairbanks, and also in many other Alaska locations, it's interesting to look at the history of winter...

Unfortunately, Anchorage was greeted with a freezing rain event just like Fairbanks was a week earlier. According to the Anchorage NWS offic...

The ground beneath our feet is an important part of the biosphere. What happens in the soil directly affects the weather and climate in the ...

Continued cooling over interior Alaska has produced the season's first reports of -50 °F today in the southeast; here are some of the co...

The break-up of low-level cloudiness over Fairbanks yesterday allowed lower-atmosphere temperatures to drop smartly from mid-morning on, wit...

With the onset of classically cold Alaska temperatures, I though it would be a good time to put up a map of the number of seasonal occurrenc...

This morning's dawn view from Arctic Village features mostly clear skies, some light ice fog, and -42 °F; see below, courtesy of the FAA...

Valley-level temperatures in and around Fairbanks are being held above the precipice of radiative cooling (so to speak) by low clouds, as se...

If the snow forecast for Fairbanks verifies over the next 48 hours, the 30-day running total will exceed the 30-day normal total. That is ac...

A major change in the weather pattern over Alaska is underway, as flow from the north is about to bring serious cold over most of the state....