Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Fairbanks has reached 40°F or higher on each of the last 4 days, which is pretty remarkable for the time of year.  Only February 1942 had a ...

As a follow-up to my recent post about Barrow's remarkable drop in temperature variance, I thought it would be useful to look at a map ...

Fairbanks airport managed to drop to -21°F yesterday morning, which was 9°F below normal for the date and just inside the "below-normal...

In my day job I spend a good deal of time working with seasonal weather forecasts, and recently I have focused on developing a new scheme to...

A couple of days ago Rick Thoman sent me a very interesting plot of Barrow annual mean temperatures, showing not only the dramatic warming o...

Linked here without further comment, my post yesterday on the Alaska "Blob Tracker" blog: https://alaskapacificblob.wordpress.co...

A blog post by Weather Underground's Bob Henson caught my eye on Thursday, as he discussed the extraordinary warmth that occurred in th...

There have been a few mentions recently of the lack of 30-below temperatures so far this winter in Fairbanks; the coldest temperature observ...

Ever since the persistent snows of November ended about 2 months ago, the weather has been very dry indeed in Fairbanks.  Through yesterday ...