The temperature at the airport in International Falls, Minn., hit 11 degrees below zero at 5 a.m. Tuesday. It was a balmy 32 degrees in Anchorage at the same hour, and 9 […]
Warm North!
Warmoween
With the polar vortex up to Halloween tricks, Alaska’s largest city is surfing toward November on a wave of weather historically more like early September than late October. It has left some […]
Climate swap
With the gulf coast of Alaska warm under the sun of an unusually early spring, the Midwestern state that wanted to rebrand itself as North is bracing for just what that […]
Bundle up
Two years after Alaska’s warmest year on record, weather conditions have returned to something closer to normal in the far north. The National Weather Service was issuing frost warnings for the Fairbanks […]
Two-faced Alaska
On the horizon north of Alaska’s largest city, the continent’s tallest peak loomed resplendent Sunday against the evening light in the land of the midnight sun, and if you knew personally the […]
New climate old
La Nina – the cold-shouldered sister of El Nino – is reported to be dying in the central Pacific Ocean, but you sure couldn’t tell it in Alaska’s urban core on Sunday […]
Dark & shivering
The Blob is dead
“The Blob,” a gigantic and infamous pool of hot water in the Gulf of Alaska once declared dead only to rise again, looks to have finally met its end. “There’s still slight […]
AK, the loser state
Alaska sucks, but living in the Far North beats being some hillbilly in West Virginia. That’s the New Year view from the Forbes.com report on the Best States for Business. Alaska ranks […]
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. […]
