Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Weather warnings have been hoisted across interior and northern Alaska today, as a powerful cold front makes its way eastward across the sta...

As a follow-up to Monday's post on freezing rain trends, I thought it would be interesting to divide the historical winter rain events a...

Due to poor snow conditions in the southern mainland, the Iditarod race start was moved from Willow to Fairbanks. This is the second time i...

This morning the National Weather Service noted the occurrence two lightning strikes concurrent with snow in Nome – thunder snow. This is qu...

Fairbanks and many other interior communities were afflicted with freezing rain over the weekend in what seems to have become an annual wint...

In what may be the least surprising weather development this winter, warm conditions have returned to many parts of Alaska in recent days.  ...

I've been giving some thought lately to possible methods of measuring the degree of persistence of unusual temperatures within a season ...

A few days ago the Iditarod's board of directors voted to move the (re)start of the race from Anchorage to Fairbanks, as in 2003, becaus...

This is a follow-up post concerning the topic of Monday's post, i.e. that this winter has been remarkably lacking in wind in Fairbanks. ...