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 […]
Danger times
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 […]
Explainin’ the rainin’
California afire and Alaska awash because of The Triple R?
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, […]
The new and truly “Iceland”
Raindrops were sprinkling Alaska’s largest city again Thursday, and suddenly the year-old climate-change speculation about Anchorage transforming into “a less sunny version of Seattle” wasn’t so funny.
