Coming off the warmest year in Alaska history, the state’s largest city appears headed for the fifth or sixth coldest January in the local climate record. As of Wednesday, the average monthly […]
‘Seward’s Folly’ redux
Icy north
The beginning of the end of the year 2019 – the warmest in Alaska history – drew to an end in the state’s largest city in the style of the new-normal weather […]
Winter bites back
UPDATED 12/27/2019:The National Weather Service is now reporting a minus-65 temperature reported this morning from near the Tanana River in the center of the state “is the coldest official temperature in Alaska […]
Hotlaska
An unusually warm June in Alaska has glaciers melting so fast that they have in places destroyed the salmon fishing. Mark Hem in the tiny community of Chitina in the east-central part […]
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 […]
Crackling hair
Update: This story was edited on April 18, 2019 to include some more video embedded below. The hills were alive with the sound of electricity for young Bugs Crocker in the Front […]
Travel meltdown
The March equinox arrived on Wednesday to end the Alaska winter just as the weather appeared to be doing its best to wreck the best of the Alaska spring. Normally this would […]
Common denominator
The north’s fastest Iditarod Trail race – the 2000-mile Iron Dog – was parked in the remote city of Nome on Wednesday celebrating its arrival at the outpost on the […]
Moto-roulette
Sunny weather brought snowmachine riders out to play in Alaska’s Turnagain Pass over the weekend. Thankfully no one died in the tumble of human-triggered avalanches that followed. The Chugach National Forest […]
Santa take care
If some meteorologists are right, Santa Claus best beware he could be on thin ice when he gets home from making this year’s deliveries. The polar vortex is decaying again, they say, […]
