Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Before I get to the main subject of this post, I would be remiss not to mention a publication released by UAF's International Arctic Re...

Last weekend, as I was writing about the stark rainfall contrast across Alaska, the effects of the drought in the south-central region were ...

Another round of heavy rain fell across the central interior late last week, taking the month's rainfall total to over 5 inches in Fairb...

Parts of interior and western Alaska have seen a lot of rain in recent days, which is of course good news as far as wildfires are concerned:...

An update on Arctic sea ice conditions has been long overdue on this blog, although Rick Thoman has been providing excellent updates all sum...

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 ...