Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

After relatively cool conditions for much of autumn in Alaska as a whole, the last week of October brought a change to unusual warmth.  Blam...

Back in early August, when interior Alaska was seeing an unusually late spell of thunderstorm activity, I commented that it would be interes...

Blizzard season is off to an early start in Alaska's capital for that kind of thing: Kaktovik, on Alaska's eastern Arctic coast.  Sn...

Last week I mentioned the UAF/ACCAP statewide temperature index (developed by Rick Thoman and Brian Brettschneider), which is a useful tool...

The onset of winter sometimes seems to occur almost instantaneously in Alaska.  The sudden change of season happens most obviously when temp...

A dry and chilly north wind has kept wet bulb temperatures at or below freezing today across much of western and northern Alaska, and that m...

The first accumulating snow fell in Fairbanks today - right on time according to the calendar.  The median date since 1930 is October 2nd.  ...

Autumn is quickly drawing to a close for interior Alaska, with a severe freeze in the usual cold spots this morning, and significant snow pr...

Widespread overnight freezing temperatures arrived across Fairbanks and much of the interior late last week.  This is a "top 10 latest...

Good news this week for many residents of northern and western Alaska: the Arctic undersea fiber optic cable that was damaged back in June h...

Looking back at climate data for August, it was a very warm month indeed - the 3rd warmest on record for the state overall.  Only in 1977 an...