Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Fairbanks has seen some notably strong temperature inversions lately, thanks to an abundance of clear skies and windless conditions with hig...

Work and life have been a little too busy for posts lately, but earlier this week I saw a brief new article published in Nature Climate Chan...

It's been a dramatic week for weather in central Alaska, with near-record-breaking early cold followed by a new November record for 24-h...

Winter has suddenly made its presence known with sharply lower temperatures across much of the interior in the past few days, and last night...

I haven't mentioned Arctic sea ice since its seasonal minimum a month and a half ago, but in recent weeks an extraordinary situation has...

The Fairbanks airport thermometer dropped to 0°F for the first time this season yesterday morning; this is a few days earlier than usual.  T...

The Fairbanks scene finally gained a more wintry decoration on Monday, with a couple of inches of snow produced by a weak upper-level distur...

What a difference a week makes.  Interior Alaska temperatures quickly dropped off from a high temperature of 51°F last Saturday, and thermom...

Exceptionally warm weather has continued across interior and northern Alaska, with Fairbanks currently sitting at the 3rd warmest start to O...