National Weather Service

A record-warm year in the Arctic, partly due to climate change …The persistently warm temperatures recorded throughout Alaska and the Arctic last year…

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…

The National Weather Service predicts near-normal seasonal conditions over the next three months in most of Alaska. Climate Science and Services Manager…

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…

It’s noctilucent cloud-viewing season in the far north!By now, six weeks after the summer solstice, those who live in the far north know the Midnight Sun…

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…

National Weather Service forecaster Rick Thoman says to expect a warmer-than-normal winter and less snow. But, as KUAC's Robert Hannon reports, there is…