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AlaskaWx

@AlaskaWx@alaskan.social

Climate specialist with ACCAP/IARC at UAF, highlighting Alaska climate, environment & Indigenous cultures. Opinions are my own. I've been fascinated by #Arctic & #boreal #weather, #climate and #cultures for more than 50 years. I've worked as a weather & climate professional in private, public & academic spheres. I've been fortunate to live most of my life in Lower Tanana #Dene country near Fairbanks, #Alaska. Also, I have a big interest in Alaska Indigenous languages.

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AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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#SilentSunday #Alaska

AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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Alaskans of a certain age will recall where they were 35 years ago today. Never forget.
#ExxonValdez #Alaska
@ANC_Historian @CarrieinFbx

AlaskaWx, to Weather
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Fairbanks Airport up to 50F (10.0C) late Friday afternoon. Mildest day since September 30th and the first time it's reached 50F in March since 2019. #akwx #weather #Alaska #Spring2024 @CarrieinFbx @anisian @tania @mivox @leahwrenn @debmcqueen @Climatologist49

AlaskaWx,
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@leahwrenn @CarrieinFbx @anisian @tania @mivox @debmcqueen @Climatologist49 I was behind a person at the PO in shorts and flip-flops. Given the state of most parking lots, flip-flops seemed like a singularly bad idea, but then what do I know.

AlaskaWx, to climate
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Munch on your lunch and catch up with Alaska climate. Noon AKDT today (Friday March 22) on the ACCAP/NWS monthly climate outlook webinar. #akwx #Climate #Alaska

https://uaf-accap.org/event/mar2024-nws-climate-outlook/

thor, to random
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Half the English language was already taught to me before I even started learning it. Heavy vocabulary overlap with Norwegian.

AlaskaWx,
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@thor almost as if they are both Germanic languages. 🙂

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Updated Winter (December through February) change of the average temperature over the past 50 years in and around the Arctic, data from ERA5 courtesy of ECMWF/Copernicus. The huge increase in average temperature east & southeast of Svalbard is due to sea ice loss. The cooling over central and eastern Siberia isn't large but covers a significant area. #Arctic #ClimateChange #Climate #Winter
@Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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#SilentSunday #Alaska

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Bering Sea ice extent is now at or very close to the seasonal maximum in NSIDC data. The pack ice edge is not far northeast of St. Paul Island in Pribilof Islands. However, the cold north wind pattern is ending and sustained south to southeast winds and much milder temperatures will spread over the central Bering Sea early this week, pushing the ice edge back north. #akwx #Arctic #SeaIce
@Climatologist49 @ZLabe

AlaskaWx, to climate
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Ketchikan and Petersburg Saturday both reported a high temperature 56F (13.3C) and both are new records for March 16. Previous Ketchikan record of 55F (12.8C) set in 1966, previous Petersburg record 52F (11.1C) in 1988. Alaska high temp for Saturday will likely be 63F at Klawock. #akwx #Climate
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seachanger, to random
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what’s a headline from a better timeline you’d love to read?

#HeadlineFromABetterTimeline

AlaskaWx,
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@seachanger
"Every Alaska community now has in-home running water"
#HeadlineFromABetterTimeline

BakerRL75, to random
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@AlaskaWx Good morning! Deep in box Hades this morning. Hope you’re having a pleasant morning!

AlaskaWx,
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@BakerRL75 Good morning. Will soon be commiserating with you in that particular Hades: yesterday signed a contract to sell our house. 😳

AlaskaWx,
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@ai6yr @BakerRL75 Hopefully not a complete set of musical chairs.

AlaskaWx, to random
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Even if pi day is a fake holiday derived by mathematicians to sell more math, it's still a good day to promote the integration of the humble PA Dutch shoofly pie. But remember, if you don't favor wet bottom, we can't be friends.😉
@leahwrenn @Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, to Alaska
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Aurora was so bright late last evening it woke me up. View from the UAF Poker Flats aurora cam (northeast of Fairbanks) shortly before midnight. #aurora #NorthernLights #Alaska #akwx
@anisian @CarrieinFbx @mivox @debmcqueen @leepetersen

AlaskaWx, to random
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Dallas Seavey is the first team out of White Mountain in Iditarod 52. It will be a cold run to the finish line on Front Street in Nome, with northeast winds and blowing snow across the Tokpok Hills to Safety. But, as the saying goes, it's been much worse. All but four teams are now to the coast. #Iditarod2024 #Iditarod #akwx #Spring2024 #Nome

SilverSalmonAK, to Alaska
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6:00AM: 44F, cloudy.

We're bracing for that "plume of moisture" that's coming. Our special weather statement extends into NEXT Tuesday.

A week of rain, heavy at times.

Bring it!

#MyAlaskaWx #akwx #Sitka #Alaska

AlaskaWx,
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@SilverSalmonAK back in the day, before the phrase “atmospheric rivers” was coined, the jargon term was “moisture plumes”.

seachanger, to random
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icymi I’d like to establish a new church, The 10,000 Year Church of Love and Space. Book-based religions have real staying power, so it makes sense to create one with the goal of maintaining a 10,000 year old technologically advanced civilization so that we can learn to explore space and actually eventually see what’s out there. Obviously to last this long we will have to reorient around healing and sustaining the miracle of our life-giving planet Earth, so that’s the central theme of our church

AlaskaWx,
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@seachanger When I was part of UU back in the day we had a standing group to explore/discuss these kind of ideas.

AlaskaWx,
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@esnyder @seachanger Depends on the specific UU congregation. My sense is US West Coast/Alaska don’t have much of that at all, especially compared to e.g. New England.

AlaskaWx, to random
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Iditarod 2024 leaders are on the Norton Sound coast, with Dallas Seavey already into Koyuk. It's a chilly morning but winds are not too strong. #Iditarod2024 #Iditarod #akwx

https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2024/03/11/arriving-unalakleet-majority-front-pack-iditarod-52-opts-break-upon-reaching-coast/

AlaskaWx, to Weather
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Low temperatures in and around Alaska Thursday night/Friday morning. #akwx #Weather

AlaskaWx,
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@ai6yr Nearly all of these are at community airports and so are in valleys, though valleys are at moderately high elevations in the Yukon and northern BC. The highest elevation site plotted here are Dease Lake, BC at 2680 ft MSL, Whitehorse, YT at 2300 ft MSL and Anaktuvuk Pass, AK at 2100 ft MSL. All the near coastal sites are within a couple hundred feet of sea level.

AlaskaWx, to worldwithoutus
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Winter 2023-24 climate summary for the Arctic is now out on the Alaska and Arctic Climate Newsletter. Yep, warm (relatively speaking). #Arctic #Climate #Winter2024

https://alaskaclimate.substack.com/p/arctic-winter-2023-24-climate-summary

@Climatologist49

AlaskaWx, to linguistics
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Tanacross #Dene #Language #Alaska

Dene beadwork is world renowned for good reason.

natl’êdz "beads"
natl’êdz nihkón’n "shiny beads"
natl’êdz nih’ées I’m sewing with beads
ch’ink’ón’ "dentalium necklace"

PS: if you're like me, this pix, showing beautiful beadwork by Maggie Roach (Upper Tanana Dene) brings on powerful sensory memory: just looking at this triggers the vivid smell of smoked moose hide.
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leepetersen, to random
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Our home weather station is getting old and decrepit. What's a good one that works well in Fairbanks and preferably has a temperature range that goes below -40?

AlaskaWx,
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@leepetersen Almost none of the consumer grade weather stations report temperatures lower than -40F, but @anisian might know if there is one. An important consideration is whether you want indoor display of info, online display, or both. If you can afford, a temperature unit that is fan-aspirated will be more accurate.

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