Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Yesterday afternoon the temperature reports across northern Alaska caught my eye, with a striking temperature contrast across the Brooks Ran...

Even casual observers of weather and climate are probably aware that a La Niña episode is currently under way in the tropical Pacific Ocean,...

Arctic sea ice has reached its seasonal minimum, and after a summer of exceptional warmth near the Russian coast, this year's minimum ic...

Personal circumstances probably won't allow me to post much in the next few weeks, but I'll aim to make a few comments here and ther...

Last week reader Carl asked about humidity this summer in Fairbanks and suggested correctly that dry days were unusually absent.  This is an...

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...