The hillsides climbing into the Chugach Mountains above Alaska’s largest city were bare and brown with lingering patches of green grass as Thanksgiving approached, and the only hint of the season was […]
The new normal?
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 […]
Two-faced Alaska
On the horizon north of Alaska’s largest city, the continent’s tallest peak loomed resplendent Sunday against the evening light in the land of the midnight sun, and if you knew personally the […]
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 […]
Explainin’ the rainin’
California afire and Alaska awash because of The Triple R?
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 […]
Glorious warmth
The season of the snow looks to finally have been beaten back in Alaska. After a cold and wet Memorial Day weekend that left the Chugach Mountains above the state’s largest city […]
She’s baaccckkkk…
No, this is not about Sarah Palin. It’s about “La Nina,” the girl who brings the cold north to Alaska. One couldn’t tell it on Saturday along the flanks of the Chugach […]
Oh no, no snow
Winter-loving Alaskans clinging to La Nina dreams of a winter better than the Seattle-soggy nightmare of a year ago best ignore the latest report from the national Climate Prediction Center. Spoiler alert! […]
