Skywatch Almanac Weather Blog
June Weather
I find it curious how June is romanticized, as though it had some exemption to the usual chaos that characterizes our weather. Like much we find in legend and lore, a single, ideal day becomes memory, and then blends into expectation, and finally blossoms into reputation. June is certainly capable ...
May Weather
True spring weather can be found in the merry month of May, though it can frequently be wedged between a frosty, or even snowy reminder of the winter past, and a generously warm preview of summer. As the storm track retreats north into Canada, our weather is punctuated by weather ...
April Weather
Spring in April is like a new-born lamb, just getting to its wobbly legs - one moment bouncing, and the next tumbling and tripping. The strengthening sun will bounce temperatures into the 60s or 70s. In a few rare years, thermometers have leapt to 90 degrees. However, one sharp cold ...
March Weather
Most of us do not care for transitions, though there are tempting moments of excitement and hope. Yet the changes often blind-side us, upsetting the routines that bring us comfort and security. March's transitions are volatile, unreliable, so that even the tradition of maple sugaring is at the mercy of ...
February Weather
February may have good reason to be the host of winter's deepest cold and snow, with snow reaching its greatest depth, and the nights still longer than the days, sending thermometers well below zero on clear night. Yet there are changes in the making. The biggest difference in the sun ...
January Weather
Winter deepens in thought and deed each January, even though there is a noticeable change in the daylight by month's end. Average minimum temperatures are near zero, the temperature at which snow begins to squeal and creek underfoot, and daytimes are most often below freezing as well, making January home ...
December Weather
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Skywatch Almanac is written by Mark Breen, senior meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum.[/caption]
Winter is now stalking the region, sometimes boldly covering the landscape and declaring itself, sometimes haphazardly experimenting with different versions of winter storms and skies. Should ...
Skywatch Almanac is written by Mark Breen, senior meteorologist at the Fairbanks Museum.[/caption]
Winter is now stalking the region, sometimes boldly covering the landscape and declaring itself, sometimes haphazardly experimenting with different versions of winter storms and skies. Should ...
November Weather
Storms increasingly walk a fine line between rain and snow in November, due in part to a storm track which progresses south from southern Canada to the Ohio Valley and the east coast by the end of the month. Some years if the progress is slow, mild rains add dampness ...
October Weather
October may encompass the biggest transitions of any month of the year. Our colorful foliage begins on the trees, and ends on the ground, leaving the hills brownish-grey, only the tamaracks glowing like the last flickering flames of October’s colorful demise. By the end of the month, the days have ...
September Weather
Weather almost always takes a back seat to the harvest of the fields and gardens, as well as the blaze of foliage by late in the month. Yet the same decreasing daylight that signals plants to ripen their fruit, and triggers chemical changes in the leaves to stop making green ...