AlaskaWx

AlaskaWx, 5 months ago to climate

The Yale Program on Climate Change Communication has released the autumn 2023 update to their "Global Warming’s Six Americas", documenting US attitudes toward climate change. From this graphic, it's perfectly clear that attitudes are locked in, spite of all that has happened in the past five years. 😢
#ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange @pvonhellermannn

https://climatecommunication.yale.edu/about/projects/global-warmings-six-americas/

AlaskaWx, 7 months ago to Alaska

This Anchorage Daily News article may be paywalled, but if you can read this piece by Seth Kantner, please do. It speaks to my heart on how climate change is impacting our beloved #Alaska before our very eyes. For some of us of a certain age, solastalgia, the sadness and mourning for the environment we loved but that's been lost, is very real.

#akwx #ClimateDiary #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis
@pvonhellermannn @CarrieinFbx

https://www.adn.com/alaska-life/2023/09/23/the-spruce-trees-like-old-people/

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to worldwithoutus

With high impact extreme weather happening all around the world, I've put up a post with weather and climate highlights in Alaska this month. #akwx #Arctic

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-july-climate-updates

@Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to Alaska

Thanks to @leepetersen, this is one of the most spot-on examples of media cluelessness about #Alaska in recent memory. This is like something we'd make up as a joke. If it's not clear what the problem is, explanation in the alt text. @tania @Climatologist49 @CarrieinFbx

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to random

South Fox Wednesday 350pm: most substantial thunderstorm of the summer in progress: downpour and small hail. The second half of August. More #Summer2023 weirdness. #akwx
@anisian @leepetersen @mivox @CarrieinFbx

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to random

FAA Alaska airport weather station online reporting status for Thursday July 27. Each dot is an FAA automated weather station: an "X" means the site is not reliably reporting online in the past 24 hours (or longer). About 30 percent of stations are out, but not randomly distributed. Same was it ever was, western Alaska gets the shaft. 😡 #akwx
@Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to random

Smoke increasing in Fairbanks-land Thursday morning with most of the PM2.5 AQI from the PurpleAir reports now in the "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" and some up to the "Unhealthy". The source is likely the Lost Horse Creek Fire near Haystake subdivision out the Elliott Highway. #akwx #Summer2023
@CarrieinFbx @anisian @ArcticGoddess @tania @themattphelps @donaldjmorton @leepetersen @Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to Alaska

Good #wildfire news for the Anderson, #Alaska area: as of Saturday all areas are released from evacuation status except residences along the Teklanika River which are moved from "Go" to "Set" status. As always, basi' chox to the firefighters working to keep Alaskans safe. #akwx #Summer2023
@KrazyTheeAlaskan @rickirobin

https://akfireinfo.com/2023/08/19/evacuations-downgraded-command-of-anderson-complex-to-change-hands/

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to random

Fairbanks peeps: I've got an interview scheduled next month with a Canadian journalist & film crew and they would like to do the interview with a stand of drunken forest spruce as a back drop. Any suggestions (less than 30 minute drive from town)? Creamer's Field Loop? Where else?
@tania @ArcticGoddess @CarrieNash @anisian @leepetersen @AmicusThespis

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to random

Impressive south winds for mid-summer screaming down the Delta River in the Delta Junction area (eastern Interior, Tanana Dene country) Monday afternoon. The very high density of observations are part of the DoD's Ft. Greely Meso-Net. #akwx #Summer2023

@Climatologist49 @anisian

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to random

Alaska generated #wildfire #smoke evident in the Fairbanks area Wednesday morning, with that distinct "fresh smoke" smell in the air. Air Quality Index mostly in the "Unhealthy for Sensitive Groups" in the immediate Fairbanks area and "Moderate" for North Pole & Eielson. Graphoc courtesy PurpleAir. #akwx #Summer2023
@Climatologist49 @CarrieinFbx @tania

AlaskaWx, 4 months ago to random

Fairbanks area temperature inversion now into the “strong” category. About 630am, Goldstream Creek valley bottom -27F (-32.8F) to +14F (-10C) near the top of Summit Drive. Those locations are about five miles apart with 600 feet elevation difference. #akwx #winter2024 @CarrieinFbx @anisian @themattphelps @mivox @debmcqueen @leahwrenn

AlaskaWx, 5 months ago to random

South Fox Saturday 615am: Partly cloudy, moon through the clouds, very slight breeze, 24F (-4.4C). #MyAlaskaWx

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to random

Juneau area 630pm Saturday: Mendenhall Glacier dammed lake outburst flooding: highest on record. #akwx #Summer2023

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to Alaska

Southeast #Alaska heat on Friday:
Juneau Airport: 85F (29.4C)
Hoonah Airport: 85F (29.4C)
Kake Airport: 83F (28.3C)
Ketchikan Airport: 82F (27.8C)
Wrangell Airport: 82F (27.8C)
Petersburg Airport: 79F (26.1C)
Metlakatla 6S CRN: 79F (26.1C)

These are not final. Could go higher.

#akwx ExtremeWeather
H/T @Climatologist49 @seachanger @AK_OK @SilverSalmonAK @LordsofHardwired @BogCranAK

AlaskaWx, 7 months ago to Alaska

Biased opinion: nicest outhouse in #Alaska. #SilentSunday.

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to Alaska

The good news is that Fairbanks is too far north for organized July 4th fireworks. The bad news is that 24 hour daylight is no impediment to people who mostly just want to hear "boom" over and over and over and over again. #Alaska
@AmicusThespis @tania @ArcticGoddess

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to random

It's been a less than stellar summer for gardens in Anchorage. A commonly used measure of growing conditions are "Growing Degree Days", which are just a measure of accumulated warmth. There is a strong long term trend toward more summer warmth, but through Thursday Anchorage Airport, at 62% of average, had the lowest GDD accumulation to this point in the season since 2008 and 2nd lowest in the past 35 years. #akwx #Summer2023
@Climatologist49 @EBecker @sbmorgan @EyeOnAlaska @KrazyTheeAlaskan

AlaskaWx, 9 months ago to random

Bad air quality Sunday morning in Fairbanks-land in #wildfire smoke Most of the PurpleAir sensors reporting PM2.5 AQI levels in the "Very Unhealthy" category. #akwx #Summer2023
@tania @anisian @donaldjmorton @CarrieinFbx @mivox

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to random

Kind of hot…until you learn that while the temperature is 85F the heat index is only 83F…
#akwx

AlaskaWx, 10 months ago to gardening

Ok, I confess: I'm not a gardener, but I don't understand why the USDA Hardiness Zones work, being based on nothing but the typical lowest temperature each winter. Or maybe they don't, but I see lots of posts referencing the hardiness zones. Is it really true that the same plants are most likely to thrive at Forks, WA (far northwest Washington coast) AND Myrtle Beach, SC, both Hardiness Zone 8b. #gardening #ClimateQuestions

AlaskaWx, 4 months ago to random

South Fox 630am: Clear, bright moon, very slight breeze, -5F (-20.6C). #MyAlaskaWx

AlaskaWx, 4 months ago to climate

Fairbanks Airport might well drop to -40F/C or lower a few days in the coming week. This is not at all uncommon. However, the average frequency of such deep cold days has dropped by more than half in the past century. It's more than a decade since there's been more than a week's worth of such cold, much less the long brittle winters of the mid-20th century. #akwx #ClimateChange #Arctic
@mivox @CarrieinFbx @leahwrenn

AlaskaWx, 4 months ago to random

Juneau, Alaska snowfall for January through Wednesday now up to 69 inches (175cm) at the airport. This is the 4th highest monthly snow on record (November 1994, January 2009 and February 1965 higher). January 22-23 snowfall of 34.1 inches (86.6cm) is the third highest three day total on record. Record is 42.4 inches (107.7cm) April 1-3, 1963. Daily snowfall observations at Juneau Airport since 1943. #akwx #ExtremeWeather #Winter2024
@ScoterD @spiraledu @AK_OK @Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, 2 months ago to Weather

Fairbanks Airport up to 50F (10.0C) late Friday afternoon. Mildest day since September 30th and the first time it's reached 50F in March since 2019. #akwx #weather #Alaska #Spring2024 @CarrieinFbx @anisian @tania @mivox @leahwrenn @debmcqueen @Climatologist49