The sun was bright in Anchorage on Friday. The bitter north wind had finally stopped blowing. And the temperature had climbed to 20 degrees. The day felt positively balmy. But it […]
Liar, liar
On the Iditarod Trail
Alaska’s most famous trail, a trail that owes its place in history to the dogs, will largely be given over to men and machines this year. With the now internationally recognized […]
Abbie-normal AK
Just when it looked like the old normal was returning to the far north after a couple of winters that left Alaskans wondering if serious winter warming was the new normal, […]
Warming reprieve
For the second month in a row, Anchorage, Alaska has been left out in the cold. A record run of 14 months with temperatures above the norm ended in December and the […]
Arctic Cat sold
Where goes one of the winningest brands in the history of Alaska’s 2,000-mile Iron Dog snowmachine race now that Arctic Cat has been sold to defense contractor Textron? Textron is a big-time […]
Damn cold AK
Alaska shivering in a deep freeze
Real Alaska rising
The temperature was 5 degrees high in the Chugach Mountains above Alaska’s largest city on Sunday night and a nasty north wind lashed the land with ice-crystals of snow. In a snowy […]
Alaska deep freeze
What a difference a year makes in the far north. Just as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration was releasing a report listing 2016 as the warmest year in Alaska’s 92-year recorded […]
Icy hot 2016
Residents of Alaska’s largest city shivered their way to the end of the warmest year on record to put the perfect underline beneath the vagaries of weather in the Far North. […]
Santa is safe
Don’t panic children. Santa won’t be forced to swim for his life because of a brief, pre-Christmas thaw at the North Pole. Reports to the contrary can simply be blamed on journalists […]
