Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

I'm on the road and unable to do justice to the story at present, but heavy rain in western and interior Alaska is the big headline this...

The last couple of days have seen some remarkable thunderstorm activity in western and far northern Alaska.  Here are maps of lightning stri...

One of the exciting aspects of modern climate science is that the tools for monitoring global climate have advanced by leaps and bounds in r...

Courtesy of Rick Thoman: Scattering of low temperatures at or just below freezing in a few of the usual Interior low spots Saturday morning....

Following up on my June 26 post about surprisingly low fire acreage so far this season, I took up reader Gary's suggestion to look at h...

A lot of rain has fallen above the Arctic Circle in northwestern Alaska this week, courtesy of strong westerly flow circulating around a dee...

The big story in the climate world this weekend is the outrageous heat wave currently affecting British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest o...

Following up on the topic of Arctic-wide temperatures (see this post from a couple of weeks ago), I've started working on some new grap...