Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

[Hat-tip to Brian Brettschneider for pointing out the event discussed below.] Yesterday I highlighted the strong southerly flow across centr...

The axis of the cold trough aloft has shifted westward in the past couple of days - towards a more climatologically favorable position - and...

The cold snap appears to be reaching its nadir this weekend for the western and northern interior.  This morning's temperatures bottomed...

Back in November, Anchorage saw a remarkable snow onslaught (38" or so) that amounted to the 3rd greatest on record for a time scale of...

A significant cold snap is getting under way for interior and northern Alaska, and computer models show it deepening and intensifying in the...

Rick Thoman put up a post about Arctic sea ice earlier this week, and it's well worth reading, as usual. https://alaskaclimate.substack....

Alaska's first -50°F measurement of the season occurred on Thursday in the well-known cold spot of Chicken, up at 1800 feet of elevation...

Looking back at December, the dominant circulation feature near Alaska was a pronounced Bering Sea trough, with 500mb heights significantly ...

A quick follow-up post on last week's big pressure gradient and associated wind: with ERA5 data now available, the peak MSLP difference ...