El Nino

The ebb and flow of Arctic sea ice …National Weather Service climate specialist Rick Thoman has talked a lot about sparse sea-ice formation in many areas…

Twenty-sixteen was the warmest year in Alaska since the National Weather Service began keeping records in the state more than a hundred years ago. Two…

Forecasting weather in a warming Arctic … National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Thoman predicts more snow, more cold snaps – more normal winter…

Residents of the Interior will likely see more snow and a cold snap or two this winter.Now that the El Nino that helped make the Arctic so balmy last…

Arctic winter forecast: warm, with occasional normal weather ...A year ago, National Weather Service meteorologist Rick Thoman and many other forecasters…

Record-setting Arctic warmth and sea-ice cover … “We’ve never seen anything like this, in terms of how warm it was this January,” says Mark Serreze, a…

The role of climate change in our weird winter weather …Temperatures climbed above freezing again this week throughout Alaska. It’s the latest of several…

It’s a challenge for news media to keep up their reporting on climate change’s impact on the Arctic, because of the pace of change and scientists new…

The Ocean driven climate cycle El Nino is back. As KUAC’s Dan Bross reports, that means immediate weather changes along the equator, and some effects as…

The weather forecast calls for more abnormally warm conditions across Alaska. National Weather Service Meteorologist Nick Schwartz, says the persistent…