Deep Cold: Alaska Weather & Climate

Alaska's wildfire season traditionally gets under way in June, and it's an interesting question as to what this year will bring.  Tw...

I promised to follow up with a few remarks about the wet pattern that has become a recurring theme of early spring (March-April) for western...

Rick Thoman pointed out that an unusually strong storm made its way across the northwestern Bering Sea earlier this week.  Here's the su...

Looking back at April's climate anomalies, the mid-atmosphere circulation around Alaska was dominated by the contrast between a big east...

Here's a bit of follow-up on the unusually late cold and snow.  According to Rick Thoman (and relayed via Brian Brettschneider on Twitte...