Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Reader Eric asked recently about the rate of breaking weather records in Fairbanks, and specifically whether the pace of record-breaking has...

Heavy rainfall is occurring again in Fairbanks this morning - the fourth time in less than three weeks, and this time accompanied by thunder...

With the June rainfall record having been broken this year in Fairbanks, and with July already in the top 10 wettest on record, it is intere...

Here is quasi-final map of rainfall totals in the Fairbanks portion of interior Alaska. Due to the large number of stations, it was impract...

The NWS Fairbanks Office released a Public Information Statement at 1:30 p.m. today with preliminary rainfall totals for the storm. Figure 1...

[Update 5 pm]  The 2-day total at Fairbanks airport stands at 3.37".  Significant rises are being observed and predicted for area river...

A couple of weeks ago, reader Mike asked about the frequency of snow in June on the mountains around Anchorage and in the interior, and I su...

On Monday, June 23, 2014, the Fairbanks National Weather Service Office issued a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for the southern Yukon Flats (A...

Fairbanks has now tied the all-time record for June total precipitation (3.55", tied with 1949), so it's natural to ask whether thi...

Annual Normal Temperature Visualization If you haven't figured out by now, I enjoy tinkering with data and seeing how it lo...

Earlier in the month we noted that Fairbanks precipitation had amounted to only about half of normal for the year to date, but the recent he...

I'll beat the lightning theme to death one last time today. In the last few weeks, I have added lightning-themed posts,  here ,  here , ...

It's not often there is a cool anomaly to point out in Barrow, but the past month has actually been a little cooler than the 1981-2010 n...

As a follow-up to my recent post about potential evaporation rates in Fairbanks last summer, I decided to go one step further and include t...