Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Wintry conditions have arrived early this year in the higher elevations of the Brooks Range, as evidenced by webcam photos taken this aftern...

The persistent (though not extreme) warmth in Fairbanks-land since the middle of summer has lifted the seasonal total of growing degree days...

I added a new post on the Alaska "Blob Tracker" blog today, with a brief discussion of a new paper published in the Journal of Cli...

Hi, Rick T. here. One of the things that interests me is how people adjust to a changing climate. Anecdotally, it was vaguely humorous to me...

Summer is waning quickly now in Alaska's interior, and some cooler temperatures are finally showing up.  There have been no freezes in t...

Yesterday I posted what I thought was a bit of a mystery regarding solar radiation and temperature data from the Lake Minchumina RAWS, but w...

Some weeks ago when I was exploring the artificial warming reported by RAWS thermometers on sunny days, I noted a remarkable reduction in th...

Hi, Rick T. here. You don't have to live in Fairbanks very long to hear about the great flood of August 1967. Even for a community long ...

In the previous post a question arose as to whether the very high humidity observations from Fairbanks airport in July were accurate or if p...

As a follow-up to recent posts on summer temperatures, let's take a quick look at summer humidity trends in Fairbanks.  This topic is ti...

Rick's post on the climatological chances of reaching various warm temperature thresholds in the remainder of summer led me to wonder ho...