It’s been a decade since the Y-K Delta saw this sort of pattern of above-normal precipitation, low snow and low snowpack.

On Jan. 23, 1971, a weather observer at Prospect Creek Camp measured a temperature of minus 80 degrees Fahrenheit.

Rick Thoman, a climate researcher at University of Alaska Fairbanks, edited the report and said the NOAA report card also documents rapid declines in caribou herds. “Particularly the large ...

Survivors include her daughter Tera Schreiber (Michael Cali), siblings Richard (Delores) Thomann, Mary K. Mitchell, Michael (Carol) Thomann, and Theresa Mapel, her life partner of 38 years Gregg ...

Rick Thoman is a climate scientist with the University of Alaska Fairbanks. Thoman said this year’s late ice isn’t unique to Northwest Alaska. “This is all part of a bigger picture.” ...

Those temperatures outpaced the previous record, set in 1969. Rick Thoman, a climate specialist with the Alaska Center for Climate Assessment and Policy, said the high average wasn’t the only unusual ...

"We are used to them having to make snow, and usually that’s crunchy, hard snow. But when you get the snowfall, it's perfect ...