Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Rick Thoman pointed out today on Twitter that this Sunday will - in all likelihood - be the 5th Halloween in the past 6 years to have less t...

A couple of items of follow-up today.  First, all semblance of similarity to the early cold of 1992 has long since been lost this autumn in...

It's been a while since I posted anything on Arctic sea ice, but it's worth looking back at the melt season now that freeze-up is we...

First, to follow up on the last post - the answer is no, the snow didn't survive in Fairbanks - at least not at the official snow monito...

The heavy, wet snow that fell at the weekend left several inches on the ground in the Fairbanks area, which of course is unusual for the tim...

-------------------------------------- Public Information Statement National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 348 PM AKDT Sat Oct 2 2021 ...Snow...

Faint echoes of September 1992 have been heard in the past week as cold has deepened over interior and southern Alaska, but despite the dram...

I may start posting these NWS-Fairbanks information statements regularly, as they often provide nice summary tidbits, and those not on Twitt...

Eastern interior locations from the Tanana to Yukon valleys were the big winners in the early snowfall of the last couple of days, with as m...

The dramatic pace of seasonal change is making itself felt across interior Alaska today, with noon temperatures not far above freezing in ma...

A couple of months ago, I was involved in a discussion with several UAF climate scientists on the topic of "black swan" climate ex...

Time continues to elude me for more frequent posts, but here's a look back at statewide climate anomalies during August and for the summ...