Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Another wave of Arctic air has affected northern and western Alaska in the past few days, leading to extremely low wind chills in some place...

To the great surprise of many observers and prognosticators (and I fall into both camps), Alaska is having something of a cold winter, at le...

During the interior cold snap of the last week of 2019, when the temperature dropped well below -50°F in many places, I was eager to see wha...

The unusual cold spell is largely over for much of Alaska now, as the core of the chilly air mass has finally migrated to southeast Alaska a...

Unusual cold has settled in over Alaska in recent days, and most of the state is now seeing significantly below-normal temperatures; and giv...

The weather has been wild in western, southwestern, and south-central Alaska in the past few days, as an upper-level trough has deepened ove...

A couple of items of quick follow-up are warranted regarding the holiday-season cold snap of 2019.  First, here's a summary of low tempe...

A fresh wave of Arctic cold has sunk south across Alaska in the past couple of days, and surface temperatures have plummeted in areas where ...

The past few days have brought a fairly notable cold spell to the eastern and northeastern interior, with the first sub-minus 50°F temperatu...

Last week Rick Thoman, the founder of this blog and still occasional contributor, announced the publication of a paper of which he is lead a...