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Bookmark or Share- Arctic Weather Workshop 2024 - Geophysical InstituteSome attendees joined virtually on Zoom for two days of Arctic Weather Workshop presentations on 01-16-24 and 01-17-24. The meeting was streamed live from the Wood Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska, and was co-hosted by the UAF Geophysical Institute. Download the meeting agenda.
- Aurora Forecast - Geophysical InstituteThe odds are in your favor between those dates: if the weather is clear and you stay for at least three nights, it’s highly likely (though never certain!) that you will see the aurora. Although the sun does set to varying degrees in Fairbanks between April 22 and August 20, the sky doesn’t get dark enough to see the aurora even if it was a ...
- HAARP to begin largest set of experiments at its new observatoryThe University of Alaska Fairbanks operates the facility located near Gakona. The number of experiments is the highest so far under a five-year, $9.3 million grant awarded last year by the National Science Foundation to establish the Subauroral Geophysical Observatory at HAARP.
- Alaska’s all-time cold record turns 50 - Geophysical InstituteAlaska has come close to the all-time cold record a few times. On Jan. 27, 1989, Galena registered at 70 below, McGrath 75 below, and Tanana 76 below. Weather observers Dick and Robin Hammond of Chicken, Alaska, recorded minus 72 degrees during their 8 a.m. thermometer check on Feb. 7, 2008.
- Alaska continues to change, fast | Geophysical InstituteThat resulted in the publication of Alaska’s Changing Environment 2.0, a product of the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Thoman has worked there for six years after many more as a National Weather Service meteorologist in the Fairbanks office.
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