Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Spring has suffered a setback in the past few days across interior Alaska, with snow falling in the hills.  Light mixed rain and snow was re...

There's been some chatter among meteorologists in recent days about unusually poor forecast performance by the U.S. Global Forecast Syst...

Hi, Rick T. here. On Friday's ACCAP monthly Alaska Climate Outlook Webinar , the question came up afterwards about whether the Climate P...

The sun is now remaining above the horizon for 24 hours a day on the Arctic coast of Alaska, but temperatures are only just getting up to ab...

Some readers may find this post a bit esoteric, but I think the end result is worth reporting.  My interest was piqued by Rick Thoman's ...

Break-up is essentially complete now on the Tanana and Kuskokwim Rivers and is under way on the Yukon River; the Yukon ice moved out on May ...

This week I'm in Anchorage at the Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop, and among many other interesting presentations I note...

In my last post I suggested that annual dates of river break-up in Alaska may be able to provide quantitative information about long-term te...

Break-up season is about to get under way across interior Alaska, as seen in the following map from NOAA's Alaska-Pacific River Forecast...

After a cold March (14°F below normal), Fairbanks has seen warmer than normal weather overall this month so far (4°F above normal).  Recent ...