Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

The weather of the past couple of weeks has been very unsettled across western and interior Alaska, with multiple stormy episodes, and the c...

I added a new post this evening on the Alaska/North Pacific "Blob Tracker" Blog, discussing the potential for extraordinary warmth...

[Update Feb 17: the Bering Sea ice extent fell another 10,000 km 2 yesterday; I've updated the chart.  Also, I added an animation of F...

This is a few days late but still worthwhile as an interesting note, I think: late last week some very extreme temperature inversions were o...

The southern and eastern interior of Alaska has seen a decent spell of cold weather in the past couple of weeks, but it's on the way out...

Long-time readers may recall a few posts last winter that mentioned the exceptionally slow freeze-up of the Yukon River in Dawson (Yukon Ter...

Unseasonably cold conditions are hanging on in Fairbanks-land, with temperatures around 10-20°F below normal for the time of year, but some ...

[Update 5am Jan 26:  Snow ended before 2pm yesterday in Fairbanks; one more hour would have tied the record for most hours of snow in a 7-da...

The coldest conditions of the winter so far have developed in western and northern Alaska over the past few days, and today there is quite a...

Freezing rain created a fair bit of disruption in the Fairbanks area this week, with an initial round of light rain for a couple of hours on...