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The odds are in your favor between those dates: if the weather is clear and you stay for at least three nights, it’s highly likely (though never certain!) that you will see the aurora. Although the sun does set to varying degrees in Fairbanks between April 22 and August 20, the sky doesn’t get dark enough to see the aurora even if it was a ...
Alaska has come close to the all-time cold record a few times. On Jan. 27, 1989, Galena registered at 70 below, McGrath 75 below, and Tanana 76 below. Weather observers Dick and Robin Hammond of Chicken, Alaska, recorded minus 72 degrees during their 8 a.m. thermometer check on Feb. 7, 2008.
The University of Alaska Fairbanks operates the facility located near Gakona. The number of experiments is the highest so far under a five-year, $9.3 million grant awarded last year by the National Science Foundation to establish the Subauroral Geophysical Observatory at HAARP.
The turbulent mixing that occurs because of the high Alaska Range accelerates the process and sometimes gives Alaska more than its proper share of the aerosols and pollutant materials. One of the features of weather in the continental climate zone is the formation of height-extended cumulonimbus clouds which bring summer showers, lightning and ...
Some attendees joined virtually on Zoom for two days of Arctic Weather Workshop presentations on 01-16-24 and 01-17-24. The meeting was streamed live from the Wood Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, Alaska, and was co-hosted by the UAF Geophysical Institute. Download the meeting agenda.
Instead of falling to the dozer blade, the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program has new life. In mid-August, U.S. Air Force General Tom Masiello shook hands with UAF's Brian Rogers and Bob McCoy, transferring the powerful upper-atmosphere research facility from the military to the university.
Since it was established by an Act of Congress in 1946, scientists at the Geophysical Institute have studied geophysical processes from the center of the Earth to the surface of the sun and beyond, turning data and observations into information useful for state, Arctic and national priorities.
An international group of nearly 140 military personnel and civilians with an interest in improving Arctic weather forecasting will gather at the University of Alaska Fairbanks for a four-day conference starting Tuesday. The Arctic Weather Workshop 2024 will be hosted by the UAF Geophysical Institute and held at the UAF Wood Center.
Interior Alaska, where Fairbanks is the biggest town, has continental weather. Continental weather is usually marked by temperature extremes, and the cold certainly felt extreme enough. Perhaps because extremes are more common here. Fairbanks reported only one day that even tied the previous low record for that date---that was -51 o F on ...
University of Alaska Fairbanks scientists are developing a new light detection and ranging instrument to help gain a better understanding of space weather enveloping Earth. The new laser radar, or lidar, will be the third for the UAF Geophysical Institute.