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 […]
Dousing the fire
Goodbye and good riddance
With another year of fear in the rearview mirror but omicron threatening to make a mess of 2022, it might be a good time to look back at how lucky you […]
Back to the future?
Out near the Bering Sea coast, the regional hub of Bethel, Alaska, just recorded its coldest November in 80 years and those to the east might want to take note. Why? First […]
Dying season
And so the season of death begins in Alaska. A 40-year-old skier is dead in an avalanche near the Matanuska Glacier, according to Alaska State Troopers. Five more skiers, among them a […]
Going polar
Tens of thousands of feet above the Arctic, the earth’s stratosphere has gone nuts, and the results are being widely felt. Heavy snows buried the Midwest and Great Lakes regions over the […]
Knuckleball weather
Siberia was colder than hell to start the week. Rain was falling in Anchorage, heavily at times, on Monday. And Judah Cohen, the guru of the polar vortex, says it all makes […]
Bear battles
Despite government officials and residents of Alaska’s largest city quietly racking up more than two dozen bear kills this year, there were still a few bruins out roaming snow-covered Anchorage as Thanksgiving […]
Temperate AK
Here we go again. Snows looks to be coming early to Siberia, so those living in Alaska’s urban core might want to prepare for another wet, windy winter. If environmental scientist Judah […]
Strange springs done
The sun was shining warmly on Alaska’s largest city Saturday, but in the shade it was still cold for March along the state’s gulf coast. Far to the north, a Norwegian musher […]
‘Seward’s Folly’ redux
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 […]
