The original wind chill formula was based on experiments conducted on how long it took water to freeze on top of a hut in Antarctic. But the National Weather Service determined that wasn’t the best way to estimate the apparent temperature in windy conditions.
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Ask a Climatologist: Snowflake sweet spot
The official name for the snowflake sweet spot is the dendritic growth zone. It happens when atmospheric temperatures are just right for producing large flakes.
Ask a Climatologist: Why is it so cold here when everywhere else is so warm?
A low pressure system that contains a lot of cold air is locked into place over much of Alaska.
Ask a Climatologist: With snow and cold, ‘it’s Alaska again’
Communities across the state are cold and snowy and that weather trend is expected to stick around.
Ask a Climatologist: Alaska’s ‘relentless’ streak of warm temperatures
Two thirds of major weather stations in Alaska have logged above normal temperatures every single month of 2016.
As summer ends, daily high temperature records fall around the state
Nine communities around the state broke daily high temperature records Tuesday, including Kenai at 71 degrees, Bethel at 72 degrees and Anchorage at 74.
Warm ocean water leads to heavy rain in Alaska
Brian Brettschneider is a climatologist in Anchorage who closely tracks Alaska climate data and trends. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with him regularly as part of a new segment- Ask a Climatologist. Brettschneider told Energy Desk editor Annie Feidt that some parts of the state, especially near Fairbanks, have had double their normal rainfall…