Moments after bashing some drywall with a hammer to expose my home’s water pipes to warmer air, I logged in to see another Special Weather Statement. A meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks wrote: “After a brief ‘warm-up’ from the bitterly cold temperatures recently, another prolonged cold-snap will return to the Interior. “Valley […]
Dates: June 27-29, 2022 Times: 8:00 AM-5:00 PM Location: Elizabeth Peratrovich Hall (320 West Willoughby Avenue • Juneau, AK) Last week, the National Weather Service issued a special weather warning for a potential heat wave that could affect many Southeast Alaska communities. Although the heat wave has been downgraded, we are still expecting above […]
“With everything going on in the world right now, the dual polar climate disasters of 2022 should be the top story” Scientists expressed shock and alarm this weekend amid extreme high temperatures near both of the Earth’s poles—the latest signs of the accelerating planetary climate emergency. Temperatures in parts of Antarctica were 50°F-90°F above normal in […]
Thanks to a combination of dangerously low temperatures and bitter winds, bone-chilling weather has overtaken the Last Frontier. Bettles, Alaska, located in the north-central part of the state, had a low temperature of 51 degrees below zero Fahrenheit Sunday morning, well below the average of 15 below zero F this time of year. During the […]