Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Some cool conditions have emerged in recent days over interior Alaska, with freezing temperatures in the usual spots.  Here are some of the ...

On this blog there has often been discussion of the influence of Pacific Ocean temperature patterns on Alaska climate, and rightly so, as th...

Yesterday may well have been the last 80+ °F day in Fairbanks for the season, and if so, the summer's total number of such days will end...

The weather in Fairbanks turned unusually wet in the last week of July, taking the month's rainfall total to 2.78 inches and into the to...

It's been almost three months since I discussed the strengthening El Niño episode in the tropical Pacific Ocean, so it's time for an...

A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Alaska's daily fire acreage numbers from the last couple of decades and noted that the median burn r...

Sunday's weather in Fairbanks was unusually chilly, and not just in comparison to hot conditions earlier this summer.  The high temperat...

A very welcome change in the weather pattern has developed in the past several days, with western and southern Alaska coming under increasin...

In pondering this year's record-setting fire season in Alaska (up to 4.4 million acres burned as of yesterday), I found myself wondering...

There are probably not many residents of interior Alaska who aren't aware that this year's fire season is on pace to exceed the reco...

Residents of the eastern interior suffered through a sweltering summer day yesterday - quite possibly the hottest of the summer.  The temper...