Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Here's a quick update on yesterday's post: snowfall for December is now up to 32.9" in Fairbanks, which is the 4th highest on r...

A sprawling storm system stretching from far eastern Russia to interior and northern Alaska brought heavy snow to the Fairbanks area last ni...

In a change of scene that is no doubt refreshing for some, Fairbanks has seen a significant amount of snow in the past several weeks.  The t...

I've been busy lately, but here are a few miscellaneous items that may or may not interest a few readers.  First - the webcam from Daws...

Hi, Rick T. here, and happy winter solstice to you and yours. Outside, winter solstice is often thought of as the first day or winter, but i...

After nearly two weeks of significantly colder than normal temperatures in Fairbanks, clouds finally rolled in this morning and produced war...

Last month I introduced a set of 19 climate observing sites around the periphery of the Arctic Ocean that allows us to get a reasonable pic...

The Chalkyitsik RAWS reported -51°F this morning, which is the lowest observed temperature of the winter so far in Alaska (except for a dubi...

It's been quite a while since interior Alaska has seen persistently cold conditions during winter, so the current lengthening cold spell...

A couple of months ago I made a passing reference to the rather noticeable absence of a long-term warming trend in November upper-air tempe...

Colder than normal conditions have settled over the interior, and so far the RAWS thermometers at Norutak Lake and at Prospect Creek/Jim Riv...

Temperatures below -30°F have been observed in a number of interior locations in the past week, and it seems it won't be long before -40...

As a long time reader and life time weather enthusiast I've been invited to share some of my observations about weather in our great sta...