Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

[Warning: technical discussion] Lately I've been spending some time exploring forecasts of short-duration extreme events on the seasonal...

Just a quick follow-up note to say that I automated a set of precipitation graphics based on the NWS analysis, and they can be found in the ...

With some help from Rick Thoman, I've managed to get hold of the NWS daily Alaska precipitation analysis data, i.e. the precipitation es...

Wildfire continues to be the big weather-related story for Alaska, and it's getting bigger quickly, with fire acreage increasing by over...

Last week I commented about the dampening effect of La Niña on Alaska's wildfire season, and that theory is being put to an early test o...

First a quick note on meltout at higher elevations around Fairbanks: the Munson Ridge SNOTEL site (3100' elevation) is still reporting 4...

A few weeks ago I wrote about the normal seasonal cycle of infrared radiation that plays such an important role in the climate of Fairbanks ...

River ice breakup has been progressing across the state, and as expected it has been a relatively "dynamic" process with ice jams ...

I'm a few days behind on this, but for future reference - here are the NOAA climate division rankings for April in Alaska, expressed in ...