Category: Skywatch Almanac Weather | Fairbanks Museum & Planetarium's Blog

November Weather

Posted: November 5, 2019| Categories: Fairbanks Museum, Skywatch Almanac Weather, Weather, What's Happening

November seems awkward in some ways. Any spell of Indian Summer is cut short, no longer at home among the barren trees, the dying grass, and the increasingly frosty mornings. And yet the first attempts at winter are frequently messy, the marks of inexperience. Even the sky seems restless, its… Read More

October Weather

Posted: September 30, 2019| Categories: Fairbanks Museum, Skywatch Almanac Weather

Every cliché ever penned about autumn can be found in October, from foliage to frost, from Indian Summer to winter, all against the backdrop of harvesting and settling in for the longer, colder nights. Perhaps most noticeable is the change in light. Granted, the days get shorter, but the increase… Read More

September Weather

Posted: September 3, 2019| Categories: Fairbanks Museum, Skywatch Almanac Weather

September is a classic transition month, not just for weather, but the shift from summer to fall schedules, the darker mornings and evenings, the foliage, the garden harvest, all play roles in signaling us of the changes than turn most everyone’s world around the other way. Longer night and less… Read More

August Weather

Posted: August 5, 2019| Category: Skywatch Almanac Weather

Although the days are now noticeably shorter, it is encouraging that August is warmer than July, 4 out of 10 years. The combination of accumulating heat in the ground and the ocean forces the storm track to its most northerly point of the year, permitting lazy weather patterns to dominate… Read More

July Weather

Posted: July 10, 2019| Categories: Eye on the Sky, Skywatch Almanac Weather

With our weather’s reputation for such variety and changeability, it is hard to imagine there is a time that it ever quiets down. However, the heart of summer in July features some of our laziest weather patterns. But we are not alone in this situation, for the better part of… Read More

June Weather

Posted: June 3, 2019| Categories: Fairbanks Museum, Skywatch Almanac Weather

Summer emerges slowly but surely during the long days of June. Summer’s infancy might be like any new-born, full of delight and surprise, the new grass and leaves, giving a very different feel to any early heat wave that comes along. Rather than the stale, stifling heat of July or… Read More

May Weather

Posted: May 1, 2019| Categories: Eye on the Sky, Skywatch Almanac Weather

May’s beauty is more than just a poet’s notion. Apples and lilacs perfume the air, the trees and meadows display every shade of green possible, and the fresh blue skies are not yet spoiled with summer haze. The gardens are being planted, and the first fields are mown for hay. … Read More

Skywatch Weather

Posted: March 28, 2019| Category: Skywatch Almanac Weather

Two steps forward and one step back – such is April’s wayward course into spring. It is as though spring is still in its infancy, exploring the possibilities of warmer weather with some triumphant successes, but hampered by disappointing failures. The child-like fits and starts can be frustrating, or perhaps… Read More

Skywatch Weather

Posted: March 4, 2019| Category: Skywatch Almanac Weather

The fall of an empire has its share of cliches. So when winter’s reign comes to an end each March, the cliches begin dripping like the first strong run of sap. Winter appears invincible as the month begins. Snow depths are often at their maximum, the ice impenetrable, the boreal… Read More

February Weather

Posted: January 30, 2019| Category: Skywatch Almanac Weather

While there are signs hinting at Spring – longer, sunnier days, and warmer afternoons urging the first run of maple sap in the milder sugar woods – the weather does its best to disguise such phantoms of hope. Permitting a day or two of blue skies and light winds, the… Read More