Thirty below again this morning. OK then. Time to reach for the baseball bat and fine-tune the weather station. Just kidding. But it’s been quite a winter in the Golden Heart of Alaska. We’ve been at it long enough now that numbers are tumbling in from the meteorologists at the National Weather Service office […]
WASHINGTON— U.S. Senator Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) Wednesday welcomed a Senate Environment and Public Works (EPW) Committee hearing to examine S. 3135, the Cold Weather Diesel Reliability Act, legislation introduced by Senators Sullivan and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyo.). The hearing featured testimony from Ryan Anderson, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities (Alaska DOT), along with other expert […]
The title page of the Alaska Climate Research Center’s monthly summary for December crisply explained what a busy weather month it was across the state. Almost a month-long cold spell Snowiest December on record in Juneau Ice storm on the west coast, multiple severe wind events in the Mat-Su Valley Wettest December on record in […]
[content id=”79272″] Nome was a hot place to be in early July. The temperature was 20 degrees above normal at one point during that period, according to the monthly summary of the Alaska Climate Research Center. The center, part of the University of Alaska Fairbanks, released its July summary earlier this month. Nome, on Alaska’s Seward Peninsula, had a record […]