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 […]
Hot, hot, hot
Parts of America’s normally frozen north appear to be on the edge of some sort of time warp wherein the climate months – as opposed to the calendar months – jump from […]
Cold a comin’
A month behind schedule, winter is finally forcing its way into a coastal Alaska coated in frozen rain. Temperatures on the west side of the Kenai Peninsula and in the Anchorage metropolitan […]
Something’s missing
Halfway through the winter season, Southwestern Alaska finds itself confronting a strange, new world. The lower Kuskokwim River remains unfrozen. December felt like an average November, maybe October. And the temperature on Sunday […]
Warming’s peril
The residents of the northernmost city in the United States are cleaning up in the wake of a fall storm that came roaring across a strangely ice-free Arctic Ocean last week to […]
Global warming chill
If you were shivering in Alaska today, blame the New York Times. There is an old joke made in journalism that if you want the weather to change, just write about […]
