Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

It's back to cold(er than normal) in Alaska again, with a brisk -31°F observed at Fairbanks airport this morning, and -40°F in colder sp...

Another round of downslope/chinook warming brought another widespread thaw to the Tanana River valley and Fairbanks-land yesterday.  Tempera...

In the world of weather, extremes tend to beget extremes, and sometimes in the same place after only a short interval.  Alaska has seen a wh...

Taking a look back at January now that all the usual climate data is available, it was a month with a lot of variability, both in space and ...

A couple of quick items of follow-up regarding the recent cold snap.  First, here's a look at temperatures in the hills above Fairbanks,...

Now that the cold snap is in the past, there will be lots of opportunity for post-mortem analysis when I have a chance (and when I ditch the...

Today's high temperature (so far) of -39°F -38°F at Fairbanks airport is the coldest in 7 years, and it's the coldest February day ...

There's been a lot of interesting weather across Alaska in recent days - as demonstrated by the sudden uptick in blog posts - and here...

[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...