Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Here's a chart showing the temporal evolution of onset and ending dates for a few metrics of cold and snow conditions in Fairbanks.  Rea...

Regular readers who reside in Fairbanks may be interested to know that I will be giving a talk at UAF on Monday September 21 (11 am); all ar...

The Fairbanks airport observing site saw its first freeze this morning, with a minimum temperature of 30°F.  Temperatures were at or below f...

Meteorological summer is ending with a nip in the air across interior Alaska, with hard freezes and some snowfall in certain locations.  The...

The Arctic sea ice melt season will be drawing to a close in the next few weeks, and it now appears certain that this year's minimum ice...

A strong low pressure system north of Barrow is bringing strong westerly winds to Alaska's Arctic coastline and causing coastal flooding...

Measurable rainfall has occurred in Fairbanks on 16 of 25 days in August through yesterday, which is tied for 3rd highest in the 1930-presen...

A couple of weeks ago a reader requested that we look at the likely effects of El Niño on the upcoming winter's weather pattern in Fairb...

Updated Aug 23, see end of post The end of this month could be shaping up to bring very unusual weather to interior and northern Alaska, ...

Last summer we looked at changes in the rate at which temperature records have been set over the last 60 years or so; see here and here .  ...