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Bookmark or Share- 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 ...
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Alaska's Weather and Climate | Geophysical InstituteThe turbulent mixing that occurs because of the high Alaska Range accelerates the process and sometimes gives Alaska more than its proper share of the aerosols and pollutant materials. One of the features of weather in the continental climate zone is the formation of height-extended cumulonimbus clouds which bring summer showers, lightning and ...
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