Alaska – Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy

July 2022 NWS Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing

July 22, 2022

Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

Eurasian Snow Cover Variability Links with Stratosphere-Troposphere Coupling and its Impacts on Alaskan Weather

July 20, 2022

Using both observational analysis and novel numerical modeling experiments, we showed that autumn snow cover extent and Arctic sea ice trends can force observed increasing trends in stratospheric polar vortex stretching and surface impacts. Our analysis provides a dynamical link between rapid Arctic change and extreme winter weather across large regions of the Northern Hemisphere.

June 2022 NWS Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing

June 17, 2022

Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

VAWS: NOAA’s Regional Climate Services (RCS) Program: what does it do and how does it work with other entities?

June 15, 2022

Learn about services that the NCEI’s Regional Climate Service Program can provide in Alaska.

Fostering convergence to address complex Arctic climate challenges: Identifying opportunities with the Navigating the New Arctic (NNA) Program

May 24, 2022

Join this webinar to find out more about convergence research, formation and activities of upcoming Convergence Working Groups, and broader opportunities for cross-community interaction within the NNA-CO.

May 2022 NWS Alaska Climate Outlook Briefing

May 20, 2022

Join the gathering online to learn what’s happened and what may be in store with Alaska’s seasonal climate.

ALASKA and NORTHWESTERN CANADA – Quarterly Climate & Weather Report: March – May 2021

May 30, 2021

Weather and Climate Highlights and Impacts, March - May 2021

Snowy in Nome, cold in northern Alaska and Canada, and warmer and wet in southern Alaska and Canada.

ALASKA and NORTHWESTERN CANADA – Quarterly Climate & Weather Report: December 2020 – February 2021

February 28, 2021

Weather and Climate Highlights and Impacts, Dec 2020 - Feb 2021

Dry and cold in the north, warm and wet in the south

ALASKA and NORTHWESTERN CANADA – Quarterly Climate & Weather Report: September – November 2020

November 30, 2020

Weather & Climate Highlights and Impacts, September - November 2020

Northern Alaska was warm, central Alaska was snowy, Yukon and NWT was dry and BC was wet.

ALASKA and NORTHWESTERN CANADA – Quarterly Climate & Weather Report: June-August 2020

August 31, 2020

Weather and Climate Highlights and Impacts, June August 2020

While wildfires burned across Siberia, Alaska and the Canadian North experienced very little wildfire activity. Wildfires in Yukon and Northwest Territories burned a combined 32,600 hectares , their lowest seasonal total since 1988. Alaska had the lowest area burned since 2002.