Alaskans helping Alaskans…Quyanna #AlaskaSky #Disaster #Alaska

Seasonal wildland fire outlooks usually don't factor in lightning because local lightning forecasts are difficult and time-consuming to put together. A group of researchers at the University of Alaska Fairbanks is now working to remedy that using machine learning. https://akpub.io/4qOmbK0

Native Movement, a non-profit advocacy organization, is providing emergency grants of $500-$800 to Alaska Native households impacted by the suspension of SNAP www.nativemovement.org/nm-blog/2025...

In the Bethel area of Western Alaska, the Bethel Food Assistance Facebook page has resources and hours for pick up or drop off of food donations www.facebook.com/p/Bethel-Foo...

@jomalley17.bsky.social www.kyuk.org/arts-culture...

Nerd alert: 936 hPa bomb cyclone (>40 hPa deepening btwn 06 UTC Fri & 06 UTC Sat) expected Saturday AM in the extreme southwest Bering Sea with the center between the Komandorski Islands, Russia and Attu, Alaska. This is not an ex-typhoon. Graphic courtesy Polar Wx/@burgwx.bsky.social #akwx #weather

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Thursday. Continued mild in Southeast. First significant snowstorm of the season in Anchorage. Still cool in Southwest Alaska and mild on the North Slope. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Friday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 3rd lowest on record (JAXA data) • about 740,000 km² below the 2010s mean • about 1,500,000 km² below the 2000s mean • about 2,120,000 km² below the 1990s mean • about 2,400,000 km² below the 1980s mean More: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-i...

Last month was the mildest October on record for the Arctic, with the North American Arctic especially warm. Details in the latest from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. #akwx #Arctic #Canada #Climate #Autumn2025 @climatologist49.bsky.social alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/october-20...

Big sky tonight in Juneau. #alaskasky

Last month was the mildest October on record for the Arctic, with the North American Arctic especially warm. Details in the latest from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. #akwx #Arctic #Canada #Climate #Autumn2025 @climatologist49.bsky.social alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/october-20...

Really great to see the sea-ice drift climate data now available on #C3S 🙌 Product made by @lavergnetho.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy and Emily 👏 A next step: How would you like to see drift data transformed into a climate indicator? 📈

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Wednesday. Quite mild in most of Southeast. Cooler in Southcentral, with Anchorage's first day this autumn with a high temp below freezing. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Climate change is upping ocean turbulence at the poles — swirling heat, carbon & nutrients in new ways that could reshape where ocean life thrives. #Arctic #Antarctic www.rcinet.ca/eye-on-the-a...

Impressively gray. #akwx @anisian.bsky.social

75-year trend of October temperatures. It's as if something has changed. 🤔

winter setting in

Inside a now collapsed ice cave at the terminus of Canwell Glacier, Alaska. Daylight filters through openings in the ice, revealing the blue glow of the glacier’s interior. Area info in my hiking guide: www.lwpetersen.com/alaska-guide... #alaska #glacier #hiking

August through October 2025 also the warmest on record for the Arctic. Amazingly, more than one third of the entire Arctic had a top-three warmest early autumn season. #akwx #Arctic #Climate

Incredible Arctic heat in October. Highest average temperature on record for land and seas north of 60ºN. In Canada, Yukon Territory and Nunavut second warmest, Northwest Territories third warmest. Alaska and Svalbard fourth warmest. Data courtesy ERA5. #akwx #Arctic #Canada #Climate

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Tuesday. Milder in southern Southeast but otherwise a bit cooler most areas. Southwest Alaska remains notably colder than normal for early November, North Slope above normal. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

For the Jan-Oct period, Alaska is easily in 1st place for the wettest year since 1940. If we have 80% of the Nov-Dec precipitation (which has occurred in 11 of the last 12 years), we will break the statewide annual precip record set in 2023. @alaskawx.bsky.social

🔥🔥🔥A record warm October for the Arctic (60N to 90N) AND a record warm October for the Antarctic (60S to 90S). This is a disaster. 🔥🔥🔥

Incredible Arctic heat in October. Highest average temperature on record for land and seas north of 60ºN. In Canada, Yukon Territory and Nunavut second warmest, Northwest Territories third warmest. Alaska and Svalbard fourth warmest. Data courtesy ERA5. #akwx #Arctic #Canada #Climate

🔥🔥🔥Canada with their warmest October on record. Departure from 1991-2020 normal is +3.7C.🔥🔥🔥

According to ERA5 reanalysis, October 2025 was the 4th warmest and the 5th wettest October since 1940 for Alaska. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Science should serve everyone. Thank you to those who believe in keeping climate information open, accurate, and independent. Your words remind us why our work matters. #ClimateForUs #ClimateScience #TestimonialTuesday

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High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Monday. Cooling off, but still the only regions below normal were the eastern Aleutians, Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island. North Slope and eastern Interior mildest relative to normal. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

I recently went to Prudhoe Bay, Alaska w/US scientists to study the effect of saltwater on fast-thawing permafrost. 1st in a series by @bloomberg.com on the world's natural carbon sinks with @hayleywarren.bsky.social and @eroston.bsky.social A thread follows: www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Unhappy to report that both myself and Porphyry Press were kicked off of both Meta platforms with no warning and no recourse for no reason. So! Hello Bluesky. Join me in Fairbanks on Nov. 19 to launch @rickirobin.bsky.social's new book, GHOSTS OF DISTANT TREES!

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Sunday. Still cooler than normal Kodiak Island and the Alaska Peninsula. Well above normal much of the rest of mainland Alaska and Yukon Territory. Southeast Alaska near to little it below normal. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

Not what people ANYWHERE on the Pacific coast need. #akwx #AlaskaSky "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to…monitor for potential tsunamis…and quickly warn at-risk communities." alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

Sheep only a few feet above Seward Highway's Windy Corner pull-out decided to approach and walk right past me. 🐏

Sea ice extent in the Chukchi Sea remains high for the 21st century for November 1. With only 33 percent of the Chukchi still open water, this is the highest ice extent for the date since 2001. Also starting to get ice in protected bays/brackish waters in the northern Bering. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce

Not what people ANYWHERE on the Pacific coast need. #akwx #AlaskaSky "The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is halting a contract that makes it possible for the federal agency to…monitor for potential tsunamis…and quickly warn at-risk communities." alaskapublic.org/news/alaska-...

Sunset on the winter solstice in Fairbanks, Alaska, taken around 2:30 p.m., when the sun barely clears the horizon. #alaska #wintersolstice #fairbanks #sunset

The October average temperature at Utqiaġvik, Alaska (71.4N) was much above the 20th century baseline for the 24th consecutive year. The abrupt change in 2002, including collapse of year-to-year variability from earlier Octobers, is entirely due to the loss of October sea ice. #akwx #Arctic #Climate

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Saturday. A milder than normal normal start November almost everywhere except Kodiak Island, the Alaska Peninsula and Pribilof Islands. Southcentral, Interior, eastern North Slope and southern Yukon Territory all especially mild. #akwx #weather

All of Alaska had a warmer than normal October, with the Interior exceptionally mild. Northway second mildest October and Tok third mildest. Fairbanks and Bettles both fifth mildest. Anchorage fourth mildest. Delta Junction, Kenai and Glennallen all in the top ten. #akwx #Climate @patwx.bsky.social

Eureka, Nunavut (NEK) hit -30.5°C in the past hour, making it the first -30° of the season in Canada, close to two weeks later than normal. The average date of first -30° in Eureka for 1991-2020 is Oct 21.

All of Alaska had a warmer than normal October, with the Interior exceptionally mild. Northway second mildest October and Tok third mildest. Fairbanks and Bettles both fifth mildest. Anchorage fourth mildest. Delta Junction, Kenai and Glennallen all in the top ten. #akwx #Climate @patwx.bsky.social

Canada had a very warm October, except in BC with near to slightly below seasonal temperatures. Record-warmest October for: Cambridge Bay -2.5° (previously -2.9 in 2021/2023) Churchill 4.7° (4.0 in 2021) Kuujjuaq 5.4° (3.8 in 2021) Nain 7.1° (5.3 in 2023) Wabush 4.9° (4.8 in 2022)

A very mild October in the Arctic which showed in the oceans with low ice extent/mild waters and on land via the lowest end-of-October snow extent in at least 22 years. Details in the latest from the Alaska and Arctic Climate newsletter. #Arctic #Climate alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/october-20...

"Sitka Bay" oil on canvas by Clyde Aspevig (b. 1951). Via Sante Fe Art Auction. #alaskahistory #alaska #sitka

An interior Alaska November Saturday morning how I prefer to remember them: snowing gently outside and hot coffee indoors. 💙 Downtown Fairbanks at 945am November 1: calm and 30F (-1.1C). #akwx #snow @carrieinfbx.bsky.social @leahwrenn.bsky.social

The October average temperature at Utqiaġvik, Alaska (71.4N) was much above the 20th century baseline for the 24th consecutive year. The abrupt change in 2002, including collapse of year-to-year variability from earlier Octobers, is entirely due to the loss of October sea ice. #akwx #Arctic #Climate

High temperatures (ºF) in and around Alaska on Friday. Almost everywhere was milder than normal except for parts of Southwest Alaska. The central Interior, Copper River basin and parts of Southcentral were especially mild for Halloween. #akwx #weather @climatologist49.bsky.social

USDA websites for accessing SNOTel and snow course data are offline. These were working normally through Friday morning. Data is still flowing: some (not all) of the SNOTel data remains available though other non-gov websites. 😡 #akwx @climatologist49.bsky.social #weather