Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

How cold will it be when the ball drops on New Year's Eve in New York City is, for better or worse, in the news, so I (Rick T.) thought ...

Seasonably cold weather has returned at last over interior Alaska, with Fairbanks seeing generally sub-zero temperatures in the past week an...

I don't often comment on the weather and climate of southern Alaska, but this week a very interesting paper was published looking at lon...

Blog updates this month are starting to sound like a broken record, but that's also an apt description of the extraordinary weather patt...

In pondering the nature of winter warm-ups over Alaska, I find it interesting to consider how much of the atmospheric column rises above fre...

Unusual warmth is prevailing across Alaska with remarkable persistence so far this month, and yesterday was the warmest day yet for the inte...

Warm chinook flow from the south lifted temperatures above the freezing point on Thursday night in Fairbanks for the first time in more than...

November brought a sharp contrast in temperature anomalies across the state of Alaska, with extreme warmth (relative to normal) in the north...

Freeze-up is progressing at an extremely slow pace this year in the Arctic and near-Arctic ocean waters surrounding Alaska.  The latest sea ...

Following up briefly on last week's post about high pressure over the Bering Sea, here are maps showing the sea-level pressure and tempe...