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End of snow season 2023/24

Spring has sprung in Alaska and the seasonal snow pack is declining rapidly or already gone in most of the state. The time lapse below shows the view from the ACRC webcam looking south towards the Alaska Range. The animation loops through one image a day from April 15 to April 30 for 2024 (top)

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Break up on the Tanana

The tripod on the Tanana river at Nenana fell over on April 27, 2024, at 05:18 am, triggering the clock that ends this year’s Nenana Ice Classic. The long standing tradition of betting on the day and time of the river break up at Nenana has produced a long and unique climatological time series of river

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2023 in review: preliminary data

Update January 2023: Our annual report is available here. As 2023 draws to a close, we are compiling our annual review of weather and climate in Alaska. Our reviews are based on weather station data, which show the conditions at the specific location of each station, as well as spatially aggregated data products that provide

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Nenana Ice Classic

Another data point has been added to one of Alaska’s longest and most unique climatological time series: The tripod on the Tanana river at Nenana fell over on May 8, triggering a clock that records the time of break-up. The tradition of betting on the timing of the river break-up was started in 1917 and

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February Snow Update

There are not many weather stations in Alaska that have continuous, long term snow measurements.  Fairbanks, Anchorage, Bettles, and Juneau have the longest and most consistent records of snow fall and snow depth and are great for comparing current snow levels to the climatological normal. February was quite snowy at all four stations: Bettles received

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