This is global warming After the winter of much snow has come the summer of much rain to dampen the spirits of the more than half of all Alaskans who live in […]
Wet and wetter
Holiday showers?
Alaskans might want to keep the rain gear handy with polar-vortex guru Judah Cohen warning of a “Scandinavian-Alaska ridge-bridge” building over the top of the world. Cohen, an MIT climatologist who forecasts […]
Dousing the fire
UPDATE: Flooding from this drenched has closed a number of road in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough: https://ready.matsugov.us/pages/flooding The rain was falling heavily again in Alaska’s largest city on Monday morning, and a […]
This sucks
Rains of near biblical proportions were falling on Southcoastal Alaska on Monday to wash away what is normally winter. Had bad was it? See the top-10 worst below. But first the news. […]
Blown away
The cliffs above the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm just east of Alaska’s largest city were coming apart on Saturday as December rains and wind swept into Southcoastal Alaska. The Anchorage […]
Danger times
Just about this time last year, the Kenai Mountains claimed the life of 29-year-old Tyler Kloos in an avalanche, and on Thursday Chugach National Forest Service officials were warning of danger building again […]
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 […]
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 […]
New norm
Rain was falling in the Alaska ski-resort community of Girdwood on Friday afternoon, and the National Weather Service was predicting it would reach the state’s largest city by the weekend. After […]
Deep snow
As yet another warm Gulf of Alaska storm slammed into the 49th state’s urban underbelly on Tuesday, pushing temperatures to near 40 degrees on the slopes of the Chugach Mountains above […]
