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11-06-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about an early season disruption in the high-altitude Polar Vortex.
10-30-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Fairbanks' recent decades trend of more October rain.
10-23-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about Tropical storm intensity, and the seasonal assessment metric known as: Accumulated Cyclone Energy, or ACE.
10-16-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about El Nino's effect on hurricane and typhoon formation.
10-09-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Fairbanks' trend toward less October snowfall.
10-02-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about unusually high late season water levels on the Chena and Upper Kuskokwim Rivers.
09-25-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about this year's Arctic Sea minimum and how it compares to numbers logged since satellite ice imaging began in 1979.
09-18-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Chinook wind microclimates north of the Alaska Range.
09-11-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about a pattern that's bringing repeated rain to the Interior.
09-04-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about climate warming as a driving factor of landslides and flash floods like the recent deadly events in Nepal and the Grand Canyon.
08-28-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the autumn 2026 climate outlook, and how the most recent fall with similar El Nino conditions panned out.
08-21-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about this week's Mukluk Fire in Tok and its similarities to another devastating late season blaze in the Susitna Valley back in 2019.
The Arctic Report Card is a unique asset to Alaska and the nation
Have you ever wondered about how sea ice and ocean temperatures are changing, marine debris in the Bering Strait, the spread of beavers into northwest Alaska, “rusting rivers” or community-based observations of Bering Sea salmon?
The Arctic Report Card is a unique asset to Alaska and the nation Original
The Arctic Report Card is a unique asset to Alaska and the nation by Rick Thoman, Alaska Beacon August 18, 2026 Have you ever wondered about how sea ice and ocean temperatures are changing, marine debris in the Bering Strait, the spread of beavers into northwest Alaska, “rusting rivers” or community-based observations of Bering Sea salmon?
08-14-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about our unusually warm and dry August weather.
08-07-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's slow wildfire season, and how some other regions of the far north are experiencing much more active conditions.
07-31-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks to Rick Thoman about a forecast El Nino that could be the strongest in the last century, with the warmest waters, relative to normal, in the Eastern Pacific.
07-24-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's cool first half of 2026.
07-17-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the extreme climate of the Yukon Flats.
07-10-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks to Rick Thoman about a recent funnel cloud, or possibly tornado, sighting in the Interior and the relative rarity of the occurrence in Alaska.
June 2026 Arctic and Alaska Climate Summary
This post covers temperatures and precipitation for the Arctic and Alaska for June 2026. The June sea ice and wildfire summary is here. June was very mild over a large part of the Arctic. About 70 percent of the Arctic (land and seas poleward of 60°N) had a warmer than average June relative to the 1991-2020 baseline (Fig. 1). But almost 85 percent of Arctic land areas were milder than normal.
07-03-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska's generally slow wildfire activity in June.
06-26-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Alaska thunderstorms and how they're different from the cumulonimbus clouds that form in the Lower 48.
06-19-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about Summer Solstice and how this time of year's solar heating and moisture provide prime conditions for thunderstorms.
06-12-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the slow start to this year's Alaska wildfire season.
06-05-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about later than normal arrival of warm weather.
05-29-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the impending El Nino and what it might mean for conditions here in Alaska this summer.
05-22-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about how Interior Alaska climate and weather play into the release and distribution of allergy triggering pollen.
05-15-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about Greenup and how the leaf out process has long been tracked in Fairbanks.
05-08-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about delayed green up, cool daytime temperatures and the challenge of predicting them.
05-01-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the factors which affect snowmelt timing, and the status of this spring's snowpack.
04-24-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about warmer weather and the start of birch sap season.
04-17-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about transformation of the snowpack as temperatures warm.
04-10-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the forecast development of an El Nino and uncertainty about what it means for our upcoming summer, fall and winter weather.
04-03-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the record cold March, and Fairbanks record cold winter.
03-27-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about spring snowpack levels around mainland Alaska.
03-20-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about greater than recent year's Bering Sea ice extent and thickness off Alaska's coast.
03-13-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the cold start of March.
03-06-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman look back at Fairbanks' cold and snowy meteorological winter season.
02-27-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the Central Interior's very snowy February
02-20-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the atmospheric phenomenon of Sun Dogs.
02-13-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the loss of Arctic glacier ice.
02-06-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman talk about the recent redefinition of El Nino and La Nina.
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
From record warming to rusting rivers, 2025 Arctic Report Card shows a region transforming faster than expected
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) The Arctic is transforming faster and with more far-reaching consequences than scientists expected just 20 years ago, when the first Arctic Report Card assessed the state of Earth’s far northern environment. The snow season is dramatically shorter today, sea ice is thinning and melting earlier, and wildfire seasons are getting worse.
01-23-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross asks Rick Thoman about barometric pressures and the conditions they can correspond with in Interior Alaska.
01-16-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about the abrupt end of one of Fairbanks longest cold spells.
01-09-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross talks with Rick Thoman about what's enabled a long run of consistently colder than normal temperatures and whether it's linked to climate change.
01-02-26 Beyond The Weather
Dan Bross and Rick Thoman look back at 2025 Central Interior weather and climate highlights.
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