Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Remarkably wet weather has occurred over the eastern interior in the past week, leading to river flooding and unusually cool temperatures.  ...

Back in January through March I penned three posts about the surprising cold in Alaska last winter, trying to identify a key cause for the d...

After commenting on Friday that lightning activity has been relatively subdued from Fairbanks east so far this season, strong thunderstorms ...

Last week I mentioned the beginning of thunderstorm season for interior Alaska, and I noted the unusual concentration of lightning activity ...

Despite continuous daylight, temperatures have dropped to freezing or below in some of the sheltered cold spots of the eastern interior in t...

Thunderstorm activity has sprung to life in parts of Alaska in the past several days, but somewhat unusually the lightning has been focused ...

Spring has arrived in earnest on the North Slope in the past week, and the NWS noted today that breakup is underway: 209 PM AKDT WED MAY 2...