For Gulf Coast Alaska, March stormed in like, well, maybe not quite a lion but at least a lynx, the feline evolved for the northland. The snow flew and temperatures dropped. Along […]
Snow fun season
Let it snow
When the snow falls early and sticks in Siberia, the polar vortex shudders, and the effects are felt across the northern hemisphere. Or so says MIT’s Judah Cohen at Atmospheric and Environmental […]
Bad winters good?
Those wet, windy and warm winters of El Niño that have too regularly transformed the dark months around the rim of the Gulf of Alaska into a drearier version of Seattle have […]
Climate normal
Snow was falling heavily again in Alaska’s largest metro area on Monday to torment those who confuse weather and climate. Blame the local newspaper. There is a time-worn adage in journalism that […]
A new season
The green, green grass of October is marking the development of a Brave New Season for the residents of Alaska’s urban core. In a land that usually transitions rapidly from summer […]
Shifting seasons
If you thought Mother Nature seemed to be smiling awfully nicely on Alaska’s urban core last month, you were right: Anchorage set a record for the warmest September on record and the […]
Alaska snow drought
Alaska temperatures are creeping back toward normal as December arrives in the Great, Once-White North, but the snow drought that had “The Weather Channel”in March wondering if 2015-16 was “Alaska’s Weirdest Winter” appears […]
Green Halloween
The Anchorage Hillside temperature at 7 p.m. on Halloween was 47 degrees, two degrees down from a daily high that fell just a degree short of the record for the date. Halloween’s […]
Global warming, oh no!
If you thought May in Alaska’s largest city was almost too good to be true, you were right. The official report from the National Weather Service is now in, and it ranks […]
Global warming’s good side
The swallows and robins were beginning to nest in Anchorage, Alaska on Friday. The temperature hit 71 degrees, tying the all-time record high. And Friday May 13 appeared to be headed straight […]
