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AlaskaWx

@AlaskaWx@alaskan.social

Climate specialist with ACCAP/IARC at UAF, highlighting Alaska climate, environment & Indigenous cultures. Opinions are my own. I've been fascinated by #Arctic & #boreal #weather, #climate and #cultures for more than 50 years. I've worked as a weather & climate professional in private, public & academic spheres. I've been fortunate to live most of my life in Lower Tanana #Dene country near Fairbanks, #Alaska. Also, I have a big interest in Alaska Indigenous languages.

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AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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Before there was the UAF low temperature photo ops, there was Denali State Bank photo ops downtown. From the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner January 29, 1989. -44C = -48F. @ANC_Historian @CarrieinFbx @anisian

AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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Guilty pleasure: not native to Interior Alaska, but I love the smell of the chokecherry trees this time of year.

AlaskaWx, to random
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Downtown Fairbanks Friday 605am: Mostly sunny with some pretty clouds, calm, 51F (10.6F).

AlaskaWx, to random
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The Atchuelinguk wildfire is burning in tundra in the lower Yukon River area north of Marshall in western Alaska (Yupik county). This is prime time for tundra wildfire: after snowmelt but before vegetation green-up, so last year’s dried grass and brush.

https://akfireinfo.com/2024/05/29/blm-afs-monitoring-large-tundra-fire-in-western-alaska/

seachanger, to random
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"The U.S. Department of Justice-including the U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, an appointed U.S. special counsel and the solicitor general, all of whom were involved in different ways in the criminal prosecutions underlying these cases and are opposing Mr. Trump’s constitutional and statutory claims — can petition the other seven justices to require Justices Alito and Thomas to recuse themselves not as a matter of grace but as a matter of law."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/29/opinion/alito-thomas-recuse-trump-jan-6.html

AlaskaWx,
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@seachanger The opinion piece makes clear "we" cannot force them to recuse. The Supreme court can be petitioned to recuse them. That is all. No force. Begging.

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Percent area of the Arctic (land and sea north of 60ºN) with the annual average temperature higher than the 1951-80 baseline normal. Since 2015 effectively all of the Arctic warmer than the baseline. In a stable climate this would bounce around 50 percent with some multi-year consistency with more or less area being above/below normal. #Arctic #Climate #ClimateCrisis H/T @Climatologist49

ai6yr, to Alaska
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Wow, didn't realize Alaska had problems with coal seams catching on fire. https://akfireinfo.com/2024/05/16/winds-bring-life-to-smoldering-coal-seam-fire-northeast-of-healy/

AlaskaWx,
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@ai6yr Yep. Not a major problem (so far) but it happens. At the moment the Popovitch Creek Coal Seam fire accounts for 88 percent of the area burned things haven't really started yet as not much hot dry weather yet: Memorial Day to 4th of July typically the prime time for wildfire starts.

AlaskaWx, to Weather
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High temperatures in and around Alaska on Saturday. For some places in Southcentral, western and southwest mainland Alaska it was the mildest day of the year so far.

AlaskaWx, to random
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Anchorage high temperature Saturday 60F (15.6C), the first 60F of the year. This the latest “first 60” since 2000 and about two weeks later than average. Since 1954, six years, all before 1981, the first 60 didn’t occur until June. @Climatologist49 @EyeOnAlaska @EBecker @sbmorgan

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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The warmest 12-months in millennia for the Earth as a whole is right now. For the Arctic though, the warmest 12-months was in 2016, with the post-2019 years notably less hot.

I explore the "where" and "why" in the latest Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter.

@Climatologist49

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/recent-arctic-temperature-variability

AlaskaWx, to climate
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This is a framing I’m going to start using: the “anti-reality industry”
@pvonhellermannn

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/we-must-face-down-the-expanding-anti-reality-industry/

AlaskaWx, to random
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Fairbanks Airport 0.52 inches (13.2mm) of rain since Thursday afternoon, making this the highest 24-hour May precip total since 2012. Eielson AFB reported 0.68 inches (17.3mm) of rain. Hopefully this will put the kibosh on the accumulating pollen. @Climatologist49 @leahwrenn @CarrieinFbx @anisian @KarenLikesRocks @debmcqueen @mivox

AlaskaWx, to random
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Downtown Fairbanks Friday 615am: cloudy with steady light rain, slight breeze, 49F (9.4C).

AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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Pretty Monday evening in the big town.

AlaskaWx, to Weather
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Fairbanks Airport up to 71F (21.7C) as of 330pm AKDT Saturday. This is the first 70º day of the year, and is right on time, at least for recent years. The typical "first 70" is about 8 days earlier nowadays than it was in the early 20th century.
@Climatologist49 @CarrieinFbx @debmcqueen @leepetersen @leahwrenn @KarenLikesRocks @anisian

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Climate normals and the Arctic is this week's topic for the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. What does "normal" even mean in a rapidly warming environment? Well, that probably depends on your perspective.
@Climatologist49

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/whats-normal-in-a-changing-arctic

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Arctic 12-month running temperatures as the difference from the 1951-80 average, updated through April 2024. The 10-year smoothed average shows the long term trend, the 2-year average captures some of the short term variability. OISSTv2.1 courtesy of NOAA/PSL/ESRL
ERA5 courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus.
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AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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Teltin Hills wildfire burning about 2 miles south of the Alaska Highway in the upper Tanana valley between Tok and Tetlin. Friday afternoon estimated at 280 acres (113ha).
@CarrieinFbx @anisian @leepetersen @mivox
https://akfireinfo.com/2024/05/17/smoke-from-tetlin-hills-fire-visible-south-of-alaska-highway/

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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A sure sign that contemporary 30-year climate normals are not keeping up with the rate of Arctic change: only one year (2021) since the early 1990s has less than half of land area in the Arctic (north of 60ºN) had annual average temperature above “normal", and eight years more than 90 percent of Arctic Lands were warmer than “normal". In an unchanging climate, this would bounce around 50% each year.
H/T @Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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If you’re in Fairbanks, come by UAF for the Research Open House Thursday evening 4-7pm AKDT. I’ll be staffing a table in the Akasofu Building lobby, so stop by and let’s talk climate!

AlaskaWx, to Weather
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Fairbanks Airport up to 66F (18.9C) through 5pm Wednesday, the highest temperature since September 9th. Webcam image courtesy explorefairbanks.com

AlaskaWx, to random
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This is the best Alaska news in some time:

https://alaskapublic.org/2024/05/14/suzanne-lafrance-poised-to-be-anchorages-first-elected-female-mayor/

AlaskaWx, to Weather
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Unusually strong storm for mid-May moving across the Bering Sea Tuesday. Blizzard conditions already at St. Lawrence Island and likely later today in the Bering Strait. This gif courtesy NWS Alaska Region.
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Loop of GOES-West infrared satellite images from 11pm AKDT May 13 to 3pm AKDT May 14th. Images are centered over Alaska and provide coverage from the Russian far east to western Canada.

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Sea ice extent in the Bering Sea remains close to 1991-2020 median in NSIDC data. Large areas of open water north of the ice edge are normal this time of year. The lack of any significant areas of lower concentration ice in the southern Chukchi Sea is unusual for this point in the Spring. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce #Climate
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AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Sea surface temperatures departures from the 1991-2020 average around Alaska for the week ending May 10, 2024. Northern Bering Sea mostly below normal and partially sea ice influenced. Eastern Gulf of Alaska warmer than average. Data from OISSTv2.1 courtesy of NOAA/PSL/ESRL. #SST #akwx #Arctic

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