An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

From the morning walk. It’s been 10 days since the CABG surgery. 6-7 weeks of healing remain ahead.

Since it’s getting very warm/hot early, again, there’s no better time for USA Today’s heat safety tips. :p

Vaianu, a subtropical cyclone

Fallstreaks, including a hole punch cloud. I’d guess that the quasi-linear formation was caused by a contrail higher up that fell through the supercooled altocumulus layer. We are under the Dulles AP flight path.

Alaska and Libya can’t have all of the subtropical cyclone fun. This convective low is between Portugal and the Azores, moving west. 🐻⌚️

Colorado will have its lowest statewide peak snowpack on record (8.4″ SWE), which has likely already peaked due to our incoming heatwave. Official records date to 1987. These paltry numbers below will likely plunge this week and next weekend. #COwx

wave cloud timelapse #CO

Oh, hi there

Yesterday, 80s. Currently? Sleet.

That look the atmosphere gives you before feeding you oxygen at 80 mph.

🎼. Oh….we’re halfway there…. 🎶 www.wpc.ncep.noaa.gov/research/rot...

No way

December 2025 through February 2026 was the 2nd warmest winter on record for the Contiguous U.S. according to Prism climate data. The widespread record to near record warmth in the west easily outweighed the cool temps in the east. 🔥🔥🔥

A view we will not soon forget. The Blizzard of 2026.

It’s been 26 days since the snow/sleet. It remains in some areas shadowed from the sun and in piles, but it has become quite patchy. :)

Our snow/sleet fell 23 days ago. Temperatures rising into the 40s and 50s lately have aided the melt, but work continues.

Many February low pressure records could be set over the next 24 hours in and near ID as well as northwest NE/western SD.

Happy Valentine’s Day. ☺️

Whispering “your days are numbered” to the many inches of snow that have plagued us for weeks here

When in “Nome”…

Dawn

Today, something completely different. Our neighbor works on cars and likes to rev his upon start up. This afternoon, he revved his car for a half hour. The cats were not amused. The result was an uncomfortably close car-b-que, which was being put out as I got home.

“fun”

Is this coming? 🐻⌚️

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Views of the Aurora from mountain point (south of Ketchikan) at 5:30 am on Jan 20. It covered the entire sky and was flickering and pulsing. Incredible 😍 #AlaskaSky

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

Fairbanks airport low temperature Tuesday thru 7am has been -45F (-42.8C), making this the 21st day thus far this winter with a low temperature of -40F/C or lower. This is the most since the winter of 1970-71. #akwx #Climate #Winter2026 @leahwrenn.bsky.social @carrieinfbx.bsky.social

The guidance, starting with the GFS days ago, has been indicating a convective low southwest of Mexico. Something is there now, so let’s see what happens. 🐻⌚️🍿

The 5-day forecast for sea ice in the Bering Sea shows ice making it to St. Paul Island earlier than any date in the prior 27 years. It will then quickly retreat with a southerly flow. @alaskawx.bsky.social

First 5pm sunset in a while. Spring, here we come…

A semi-convective low moving through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean Sea. 🐻⌚️

Kuujjuarapik & La Grande IV sites in Quebec set Dec low pressure records this morning when their MSLP fell into the low to mid 960s hPa. Inukjuak’s MSLP fell to 955.7 hPa, an all-time record. POR starts in 1937. The cyclone’s CP fell to 951 hPa at 15z, before moving west into Hudson Bay.

The latest reported snow depth at the Juneau Airport is 37". This is higher than any of the 6-hour snow depths in the ASOS era (2001-present) and larger than any of the once daily values since March 11, 1972. @alaska.bsky.social @alaskawx.bsky.social

Here are a few back of the napkin stats for cold in Alaska this month. @alaskawx.bsky.social Coldest since 2010: Anchorage, Talkeetna, Homer, King Salmon, McGrath Coldest since 1980: Fairbanks, Bettles, Eagle, Delta Junction Coldest since 1964: Juneau

With a powerful cold front coming through the country, we can see this on the hourly pressure changes from METAR stations. Very easy to see the rising pressure as the front passes! About to be very cold for a lot of people

Look at this weird cloud

Breaking news. :p

Obligatory pic of glass gone bottom up. For Gander #YQX, official minimum sea level pressure 949.7 mb this evening marks the lowest since Feb 9, 1964 (when the all-time low of 946.9 mb occurred). Data since 1959. Rebound will be swift: 50 mb rise next 12 hrs. Thus, wind! #nlwx

Dec and all-time low pressure records are expected Wed between southeast B.C. and southern Sask. The records were set <1970, so NCEP reanalysis percentiles/anomalies will be overblown. Short period record sites, like Baudette & Park Rapids MN, could see new December low pressure records too.

The cyclone that broke the December low pressure record at Gander Newfoundland (and Labrador) by 7 hPa. The record is at least 950.1 hPa now. The last time the site broke a monthly low pressure record was all the way back on November 4, 2025.

1001 cyclone near the Virginia Capes

Happy anniversary to the snow squall

AIFS Ensemble plots are now available on PolarWx for a limited number of map projections: polarwx.com/models/?mode...

We’re here for the inversions.

Rainfall reports and radar estimates (shaded map) are displayed below for the Southern Plains heavy rain event. Several locations saw 5-7 " rainfall accumulations, leading to several flash flood warnings and a flash flood emergency.

Interesting convective feature north of the Leewards

Officially a top-5 latest first snow in Denver as of today. We are a lock to move into the top-3, though we may finally (and probably marginally) snap this skid later this week. #COwx