February provided a full Alaska winter weather experience: coastal blizzards, strong temperature swings, heavy snowfall and more deep cold in many locations. The Alaska Climate Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks Geophysical Institute published its February summary earlier this month. “February brought such a wide range of Alaska winter weather that nearly all Alaskans […]
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 […]
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 […]