Despite an average, monthly temperature running more than 11 degrees above normal in Alaska’s largest city, National Weather Service forecasters are predicting an Anchorage tradition could continue: Halloween might be greeted by […]
White Halloween?
A new season
The green, green grass of October is marking the development of a Brave New Season for the residents of Alaska’s urban core. In a land that usually transitions rapidly from summer […]
Doomsday warming?
On the day the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) of the United Nations publicly revealed its special report warning of an impending global-warming catastrophe, the daily temperature in Alaska’s largest city […]
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 […]
Bad news good
Get out the shorts and the sun tan lotion, the U.S.National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association has joined Environment and Climate Change Canada in predicting global warming is about to revisit the most […]
Winter lives on
Little could Carlos Lozano know that the uncomfortable process of getting an artificial knee this April might save him a big, snowy headache. Lozano is the heart and soul of the Alaska […]
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 […]
Go play
With less than five weeks to go until the first day of spring, winter has finally arrived on Alaska’s Kenai Peninsula, though the wilderness playground south of the state’s largest city remains […]
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 […]
Shifting seasons
November brought winter like weather to coastal Alaska at last, ending another October of the new-normal. The National Weather Service in Anchorage reported up to four inches of snow turning in places […]
