Rick Thoman

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The November 2025 climate summary for Alaska is posted in the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. A comparative calm between the high impact storms of October and already in December. #akwx #Climate #Autumn2025 @climatologist49.bsky.social

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Tuesday low temperatures reported through 9pm MST/7pm AKST for the Yukon Territory/Alaska border county:

Northway, AK -46.1C/-51F
Tok, AK: -47.2C/-53F
Beaver Creek, YT: -46.9C/-52F
Burwash, YT: -45.7C/-50F
Dawson, YT: -43.5C/-46F
Whitehorse, YT: -36.2C/-33F
#akwx #ytwx
@explorenorth.bsky.social

Thank you.

Not quite: north of about 53N the earliest sunsets are yet to come.

Is the record of -43.3 for the airport?

The weather station (and Jeep) have now bottomed out - we have to rely on the old mercury thermometer to know how cold it actually is. (rural Whitehorse, Yukon)

Anchorage sunset

Folks, this one sucked.

Record relative to the 43 years 1979-2021.

Yes indeed. The January 2022 windstorm was about 48 hours long.

Blackcapped chickadees at feeder, -12°F; Fairbanks Ak.

Works like a charm. Thanks again.

Thank you.

So according the NOAA spokesperson quoted here, NWS is "Properly staffed to meet our mission…". Then why is the NWS trying to hire 450 people?

Hi @akrherz.bsky.social

There doesn't seem to be a zoom in/out option on the IEM LSR mapper tool. Or perhaps I'm just not finding it. Thanks.

Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Monday, December 8, 2025. Plotted temperature range from -38F at Old Crow, YT to 49F at Prince Rupert and Sandspit, BC.

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Monday. Quite cold in the eastern Interior and northern Yukon Territory/lower Mackenzie valley. Cold too over northern and central Southeast Alaska. Southcentral much milder but still locally windy. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Plots of sustain wind speed and gusts (mph) at Palmer airport (top) and Wasilla Airport (bottom) from Friday morning December 5 through Tuesday morning December 9.

The long duration severe wind storm in the lower Mat-Su valley is over. Winds picked up Friday evening and continued with little relief until early Tuesday morning. Widespread damage/power outages. Highest wind speeds were 100 mph at Palmer airport and 72 mph at Wasilla airport. #akwx #Windstorm

The weather forecast for Whitehorse, Yukon, is interesting this morning: "Temperature falling to minus 33C this afternoon. Wind chill near minus 41C," then wind chills of -43C tonight and -44C tomorrow. (-44C is -47F)

About -15F here on Troth Yeddha’ with a slight breeze. Air quality is excellent.

From UAF Troth Yeddha’ at 2:38pm Monday, and the sun says “bye-bye” for another day. Of course, if we were on the longitudinally correct time zone, this would be a 1:38pm photo. #akwx #AlaskaSky #Winter2026 @borealchrys.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social

But will you keep Free Parking??

More like the dial thermometer is bogus.

This is absolutely awful. This was one of the best resources for climate indicators data, and my go-to share for help answering public questions.

Luckily I captured some of them on my new U.S. climate page a few months ago: zacklabe.com/united-state...

Same pic, my version.

Low temperatures (ºF) thru about 945am AKST Monday in northeast Alaska and western Yukon Territory. #akwx @climatologist49.bsky.social

Don't know since there no systematic 24-hour obs at Palmer prior to the ASOS install in 1997. This is at least a bit longer than the January 2022 severe windstorm.

Screenshot of aviation reports of 70+ mph wind gusts at Palmer and Wasilla airports.

Day three of the severe windstorm in the lower Mat-Su valley. Monday 7am and winds are still gusting over 70 mph at Palmer and Wasilla. Schools closed, lots of damage, 10k customers without power. #akwx #Winter2026 #WindStorm

Map centered on Alaska showing site-specific high temperatures (ºF) on Sunday, December 7, 2025. Plotted temperature range from -32F at Arctic Village and Central, AK to 47F at Klawock, AK and Prince Rupert, BC.

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Sunday. Strong winds continued in parts of Southcentral and on the southeast Bering Sea coast. Cold from Interior Alaska eastward into northern Yukon Territory and lower MacKenzie valley. These temperatures are nowhere close to records. #akwx #weather

Same

Seems cold.