Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Today the U.S. Climate Prediction Center came out with their seasonal forecast for winter, i.e. December through February, and to probably n...

It's been a while since I did one of these, but I've just posted an update on the North Pacific "blob tracker" blog. htt...

The air temperature is much more seasonable across interior and northern Alaska today, courtesy of a strong cold front that pushed its way a...

There's a lot that could be said about the ongoing persistent and increasingly extreme warmth (relative to normal) across much of Alaska...

Hi, Rick T. here with an analysis of one piece of exceptional September we just came through. Specifically, the lack of precipitation on the...

As a postscript to my earlier analysis of the intense ridge over the Bering Sea and western Alaska (see here and here ), the charts below i...

With rain and very mild temperatures today (up to 48°F so far), Fairbanks is moving further into uncharted territory in terms of the lack of...

Hi, Rick T. here with a quick post of the recent warmth in Alaska. One of the most frequent questions I get from Outside media is something ...

The calendar says we're already in mid-October, which is just about the end of interior Alaska's short autumn.  According to climate...

Freeze-up is now under way across portions of the Arctic Ocean, notably in the eastern Beaufort Sea, the Canadian high Arctic, and the Green...

October has arrived, but you wouldn't know it based on the weather conditions across Alaska, as most of the state continues to be grippe...

Prompted by a question from reader Tracy on permafrost depth in Fairbanks, I recently tracked down some soil temperature data at the UAF Geo...