Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Just a couple of quick notes this evening.  First, it's worth a comment that the ALDN reported more than 600 lightning strikes yesterday...

A couple of days ago, renowned climatologist Brian Brettschneider posted a chart illustrating the rapid loss of solar radiation at high lati...

I need to make just one more comment on the Arctic vortex that dropped down to the Bering Strait region nearly a month ago now: after putti...

This is a few days late, but here's a look back at the climate anomalies for July.  The monthly mean circulation pattern was dominated b...

Following up briefly on yesterday's post, 2.0" was the official snow measurement from Denali Park HQ yesterday.  This is actually f...

Fairbanks is cleaning up again today, after another round of strong winds produced more power outages just two weeks after the severe wind s...

The last 3-4 weeks have seen a remarkable turnaround in weather fortunes for much of Alaska, with dramatically wetter - and considerably coo...

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