Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Mean daily temperatures in Fairbanks have been almost constantly above normal since the beginning of November, and the PDO phase has become ...

My co-author and climate detective extraordinaire, Brian, sent me a couple of scanned images yesterday from the Fairbanks News-Miner of Janu...

If you don't like the weather, just wait 15 minutes  – unknown What parts of the U.S. have the most temperature and precipitation vari...

In last Wednesday's post I made a remark about the 1930's being an interesting time for climate in Alaska, so of course this idea de...

The first measured -40° temperature of the season (as far as I'm aware) was observed in Alaska this morning, as the thermometer at Tooli...

As snow fell across Fairbanks-land yesterday, I found myself wondering about the joint distribution of precipitation and temperature during ...

The Fairbanks area was recently placed under a Winter Storm Warning . For Alaska Zone 222, the Fairbanks Zone, this means 8 or more inches a...

The U.S. Climate Reference Network (CRN) of high-quality observing stations continued to expand in Alaska last summer, with three new stati...

The sea surface temperatures in the North Pacific have remained in a pattern consistent with the positive phase of the Pacific Decadal Oscil...

The coldest temperature observed at Fairbanks airport so far this cold season is only -6 °F, which is equivalent to the normal low temperatu...