Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

With very unusual cold persisting in southwestern Alaska, and even colder conditions arriving in the next few days, some spots with longstan...

It's been a very cold week for the time of year in western and southern Alaska, and the eastern interior is now seeing its first real co...

First, a brief follow-up on the last post: we ended up with 15 consecutive days without Nome being warmer than Fairbanks, which is quite ama...

The recent weather pattern, with a persistent trough over far eastern Russia and the Bering Sea, has allowed winter to make an appearance ov...

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...