Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Blog posts will be scarce in the next week or two as I'm traveling, but here's a quick post to highlight the really extraordinary wa...

As a follow-up to last week's post on extreme lightning activity, I thought it would be interesting to take a look at the spatial distri...

Yesterday was an extraordinary day for lightning in Alaska, with the highest number of lightning strikes recorded for any single day in the ...

As I'm sure all readers are fully aware, an extraordinarily intense heat wave has been occurring across much of southern Alaska in the p...

Increasingly unusual warmth in the past couple of weeks has allowed wildfire activity to pick up substantially across Alaska, and as of toda...

Exceptional warmth occurred last week over much of northern Alaska, and a significant new record high temperature was set at Utqiaġvik (form...

Back in September I posted some brief analysis of soil temperature profiles at one of the Fairbanks monitoring sites run by UAF's Perma...

Intrigued by the extreme rainfall rate that was reported last Sunday at Fairbanks airport, I procured the history of 1-minute precipitation ...

I saw this posted today by the NWS in Fairbanks and thought it was neat: Overnight thunderstorms developed west of Bettles and have move...

Yesterday evening the Fairbanks area experienced a very strong thunderstorm system that prompted a rare severe thunderstorm warning from the...

Veteran Alaska climate expert Rick Thoman delivered the latest in his longstanding series of monthly climate outlook seminars today at UAF, ...