Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

November was a remarkably snowy month in parts of the interior, with Bettles setting a new record for total November snowfall at 50.6"....

Continuing with the discussion of normal snowfall patterns across interior Alaska, I thought it would be worthwhile to look at the CFS (Clim...

I'll have more on the topic of "snowiest place in the interior" soon - and thanks to readers for comments - but today I just w...

November has been a very snowy month so far in Fairbanks, with 21.4" through midnight last night and measurable snowfall on 19 of 25 da...

Reader Gary suggested recently that it would be helpful to have a summary of the typical impacts of major ocean anomalies on Fairbanks clima...

Last week I noted that strong El Niño conditions in the tropical Pacific Ocean do not preclude unusual cold in Fairbanks.  However, it's...

The subject of record temperatures came up the other day when Anchorage set a record low temperature for the first time in 2.5 years. In Anc...

The first temperatures below -30°F were observed last night in two different parts of Alaska: on the central North Slope, where -35°F was ob...

With the advent of significantly below-normal temperatures in the interior (-26°F at the Salcha RAWS this morning), and a forecast for still...

Frequent light snowfall over the past 12 days has brought the snow depth up to 6 inches in Fairbanks, which while still modest, is actually ...

To nobody's surprise, October was substantially warmer than normal in Barrow again this year.  Barrow's persistent October warm anom...