Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

After a remarkable spell of warm and dry weather to close out summer, rain returned to Fairbanks earlier this week, pushing August's rai...

An interesting feature of the interior Alaska climate is that early autumn tends to bring drier and more settled, sunny weather after the ty...

If residents of central Alaska have a sense that this summer has seen unusually steady temperatures, without extremes of either cold or heat...

In the wake of last weekend's epic rains in central Alaska, I've been poking around in historical rainfall data from the Alaska RAWS...

Here's a look at observed 48-hour rainfall totals from the weekend's storm; click to enlarge the map below.  As usual the data is sp...

I wasn't expecting to return to the topic of summer rain quite so soon, but for two reasons it makes sense to do so.  First, the current...

We're at the time of year when many eyes start looking north to the Arctic Ocean to see how sea ice is faring as melt season passes thro...

In keeping with recent posts on increased warm-season precipitation, rainy weather has become persistent in Fairbanks-land this month.  Each...

As a follow-up to last week's post on increased rainfall in Fairbanks, I did a broader analysis with a couple of gridded data sets to e...

Okay, for old times sake… The highest annual frequency of thunderstorms in Alaska is over the Tanana-Yukon uplands. Many weather-aware Fai...

I managed to miss the day itself, but yesterday was the 10th anniversary of Rick's first post here on the Deep Cold blog. http://ak-wx...

Interesting reading from the Alaska Fire Service today: https://akfireinfo.com/2020/07/09/alaskas-fire-season-shaping-up-to-be-a-low-year/...

A few days ago Rick Thoman posted a striking chart on Twitter, showing clearly that Fairbanks has seen unusually high precipitation on a sus...

A very chilly air mass originating over the Arctic Ocean has produced frost in many of the usual cold spots of the central and eastern inter...