Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Today, May 15th, is the average date for the last freeze at the Fairbanks International Airport using data from 1981 to 2013. If we look at ...

Spring in Nome is always slow to arrive, and the weather in Nome has been characteristically miserable lately.  Measurable snow has fallen o...

The previous post on this topic illustrated some differences in precipitation climatology between the sheltered Fairbanks airport and the K...

Precipitation has been scarce for some time now in Fairbanks-land, but a couple of weeks ago the Keystone Ridge observer reported rain, snow...

This is a companion post to yesterday's discussion about High Temperature Categories . Over the course of a year is Fairbanks more lik...

Over the course of a year is Fairbanks more likely to have a high temperature in the 30°s, 40°s, or 50°s? You might be surprised to hear tha...

Yesterday was the first 70°F day of the year in Fairbanks (and Anchorage). This is the 8th earliest occurrence of the first 70°F day for Fai...

The intense high pressure ridge currently residing over Alaska is by some measures the strongest on record for the month of May.  Yesterday ...

The second half of April 2014 in Fairbanks will end as one of the warmest on record, although the full month will be only a little above nor...

As Rick noted the other day , there has been a wide divide in the daily temperature anomalies across the State. Since October 1st, almost al...

Reader Eric suggested that the relationship between cloud cover and temperature in Fairbanks would be nicely revealed using scatter plots; h...

For fun, here's a scatter plot of daily standardized temperature departures (1981-2010 normals) so far for 2014 for Fairbanks, Nome, Anc...

Fairbanks has enjoyed predominantly dry and relatively sunny weather since late winter, and temperatures have been mostly above normal excep...

As we have discussed several time in the last few months, 2013 was a very anomalous year for much of Alaska. Even though the annual temperat...

The most difficult daily temperature record to beat in Fairbanks is the -1°F on May 9th, 1964. Using the 1981-2010 normals, a value of -1°F ...

After a slightly delayed start, the thawing season has suddenly gotten under way in the interior, and in only a few days the snow depth at F...

Once or twice a year I make a map of the temperatures around Anchorage showing the number of 70°F days in the summer and the number of 0°F d...