Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Tuesday's post on the persistent warmth aloft above Fairbanks (despite recent chill at the surface) sparked the question of how the PDO ...

Valley locations in the Fairbanks area continue to see cold and stagnant conditions under high pressure, but temperatures aloft are much war...

The coldest weather of the season arrived for much of interior Alaska over the weekend, and this morning the COOP site at Chicken reached -5...

I recently looked at the influence of the PDO phase on Fairbanks temperatures throughout the year, and so I thought it would be interesting...

The unusual and persistent warmth in Fairbanks grinds on, with temperatures rising above freezing this early morning at Fairbanks airport.  ...

Snowfall on Thursday night and Friday finally brought the snowpack in Fairbanks to above 12 inches in depth, with 5.2" of accumulation ...

It was a week ago now that Fairbanks experienced its first day this winter with an official (midnight-to-midnight) high temperature below ze...

My  recent post on the seasonality of the PDO's influence on Fairbanks temperatures revealed an interesting feature of the Fairbanks cl...

** This is a working draft as the National Park Service may have suggested edits or additions ** On February 14, 2014, a remarkable event ...