Weather

“I can recall a time where we would have maybe one good freezing rain event a winter,” said Tom Grman. “And then several winters ago, those were really prevalent.”

Ketchikan Public Utilities had been relying on backup diesel generators after an unusually dry stretch of weather. The area just suffered its eighth-driest October on record.

Since modern record keeping began in 1930 Fairbanks has not had a Halloween without any snow at all on the ground.

Heavy rains returned to the region this month, triggering a large mudslide on the Haines Highway last weekend. Now the Alaska Earthquake Center says seismic activity may have also played a role.

City and borough crews along with local contractors have been working overtime to give all of that rainwater somewhere to go

It’s the first time in more than a century with no recorded snow in Fairbanks — not even a trace — this late in October, as of Tuesday the 16th

According to the National Weather Service, between 1.5 and 3 inches of rain had fallen in the last 18 hours as of 1 p.m. Sunday. Up to 5 inches were expected to fall by noon Monday.

Alaska’s summer may have seemed cold. And it was, compared to the previous few. But it was actually still significantly warmer than the previous three decades. Rick Thoman, who’s retiring from his job as a federal climatologist, talks about how sometimes our brains can tell us different things than the data.

Emergency Manager Heather Seeman says she’s concerned about the storm season ahead.