Rick ThomanFeb 2
The December and early January cold snap across Alaska and NW Canada may well turn out to be one of the coldest multi-week events of the 21st century. Lots of details in the latest from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. #akwx #ytwx #Arctic #Climate alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-and...
Rick ThomanFeb 2

The December and early January cold snap across Alaska and northwest Canada was impressive and may well turn out to be one of the coldest multi-week events of the 21st century. Lots of details in the latest post from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. @Climatologist49

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/alaska-and-nw-canada-cold-snap-review

#akwx #ytwx #Climare #Winter2026 #cold

Rick ThomanJan 24
Seems unimportant in this moment, but if keeping up with environmental conditions in the North can bring you a calmer few minutes, here's an update on the status of the Arctic and Alaska and vicinity snowpack as of mid-January. #Arctic #akwx #ytwx #Snow alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/january-20...
Rick ThomanJan 24

Seems unimportant in this moment, but if keeping up with environmental conditions in the North can bring you a calmer few minutes, here's an update on the status of the Arctic and Alaska and vicinity snowpack as of mid-January. @Climatologist49

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/january-2026-arctic-and-alaska-snowpack

#akwx #ytwx #Arctic #snow

Rick ThomanJan 24
Alaska and vicinity snowpack snow water equivalent as of Jan 16 was quite low relative to the 1991-2020 median over much of Southcentral and west/southwest Alaska. The southern YT and northern BC with well above normal snowpack. ERA5 data courtesy @[email protected]. #akwx #ytwx #Snow
Rick ThomanJan 24

Alaska and vicinity snowpack snow water equivalent as of mid-January is quite low relative to the 1991-2020 median over much of Southcentral and west/southwest Alaska. Exceptions though in the Kuskokwim delta and upper Bristol Bay. Southern Yukon Territory and northern British Columbia well above normal snowpack for this point in the season. ERA5 data courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. @Climatologist49 @anisian @Jdnome

#akwx #ytwx #Snow

Rick ThomanJan 18
Yukon climate factoid: the temperature at Dawson remained below -15C from December 5 through January 15, and all but three of those days had high temperatures below -20C. Also, 25 days with lows in the 40s below with a low of -49.1C on Jan 4th. #ytwx @[email protected] @[email protected]
Rick ThomanJan 5
Low temperatures (ºC) in and around Alaska on Sunday. Really cold except for the lower Alaska Peninsula and Aleutians/Pribilofs. #akwx #ytwx #weather @[email protected] @[email protected]
Rick ThomanJan 5
December 2025 in the Yukon Territory was the easily the coldest December since 1980, 9ºC below the 1991-2020 baseline average. Coldest any month since Jan 1996. ERA5 data courtesy @[email protected]. #ytwx #Canada @[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected]
Rick ThomanJan 4
Sunday morning low temperatures through 9am AKST: Chicken: -63F (-52.8C) Tok: -60F (-51.1C) Northway: -59F (-50.6C) Beaver Crk, YT: -57F (-49.7C) Eagle Airport: -56F (-48.9C) Dawson, YT: -56F (-48.7C) Ft. Yukon: -55F (-48.3C) Nenana: -54F (-47.8C) Fairbanks Airport: -50F (-50.6C) #Cold #akwx #ytwx