Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Yesterday brought some wild and highly unseasonable weather to southern and interior Alaska, as an extremely powerful cold front blasted eas...

After an astonishing outbreak of wildfire in southwestern Alaska earlier this summer, the weather has changed dramatically.  The past few da...

I'm traveling at present and can't comment in detail, but major weather relief has arrived at last when it comes to Alaska's nas...

First, weather news today from the southeastern interior: flooding has damaged the Richardson Highway in a number of locations near the cros...

I've been spending a bit of time working with Alaska's lightning data recently.  Part of the goal is to have a history of daily ligh...

As if the fire situation were not threatening enough already, lightning activity ramped up over the weekend across interior Alaska.  There w...

Alaska's wildfire season continues to go from bad to worse in a big way, with today's AICC report stating that fire acreage has reac...

[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...