This was the first general snow across interior Alaska this season. The average date of the first snow in Fairbanks is September 21. The average date of the first snow in Anchorage is October 17.

An alga species that grows on glaciers gives the snow a crimson hue, which increases the amount of sunlight that the snow soaks up and makes it melt faster, new measurements confirm. On Alaska’s ...

May 12, 2022 May 12, 2022 Updated Jun 16, 2023 Alaska is undergoing a dynamic breakup ... the combination of ice jams and snow melt is leading to flooding in communities around the state.

Meteorologists rely on the work churned out by people they never see, who feed weather information to supercomputers all over the world.

While the snow season (what snow season?) is winding down here in the Ohio Valley, winter is still going full force in Alaska. The picture at the top was taken in Fairbanks yesterday after a 9 ...

As the fall colors fade and the crisp air signals winter’s imminent arrival, there is still time to explore some of Alaska’s lesser-known parks before heavy snowfall hits the ground.

Thawing ice, from the high peaks to the poles, is producing extraordinarily expensive floods, infrastructure damage and ...

Light snow showered Fairbanks on Tuesday, October 8, marking the first snow of the season, the National Weather Service (NWS) said. Footage taken by a forecaster at the NWS’s regional office in ...

One Fairbanks man started collecting butterflies as a 6-year-old boy in New York and kept at it for more than 70 years. Before he died in spring 2014, Ken Philip and his network of volunteers ...

Whether it's the almost unparalleled wildlife, the people, or the nonstop access to fresh seafood, Alaska has a way of making visitors fall in love with it. While many visit The Last Frontier ...

Most of the U.S. is expected to see less snow this year, continuing a long-term trend of snowfall decline as global ...