Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Regular readers will know that Alaska has a reasonably dense network of realtime temperature observations these days from remote automated w...

This is just a quick update to note that the Arctic storm that was advertised last week failed to strengthen as much as the ECMWF forecast ...

Eagle was hit with quite a hail storm yesterday afternoon - here's photographic evidence via the NWS Twitter feed. Hail at Eagle AK,...

Last summer I remarked on an intense low pressure system over the high Arctic in August and noted that strong Arctic storms seem to have oc...

It's been a cold month so far along Alaska's Arctic coast, but webcam views are finally showing change in the fresh water environmen...

The climate extremes of Alaska's interior have been on display in the past few days, with hard freezes this morning in places that were ...

Here's a list of the highest reliable temperatures observed in the recent heat wave: all are found in the Tanana River valley, from Fair...

The heat is on across the interior today, with temperatures pushing up to 90°F in some spots.  The map below shows the high temperatures thr...

Last week's post on Chukchi Sea ice (or lack of it) prompted me to look back at the past winter and examine just how warm it was around ...

Hi, Rick T. here. One of the omnipresent issues in doing climate-scale analysis for Alaska is the comparatively short record of most variabl...

The seasonal melt of sea ice is off to a fast start this year in the Chukchi Sea, according to data from the National Snow and Ice Data Cent...