August is the rainiest month in Alaska. But how rainy? That depends on where you live.
"Brian Brettschneider"
Ask a Climatologist: Remembering the record breaking July snow
Back in 1970 on July 19, it snowed 9.7 inches at the Summit weather station just south of Cantwell on the Parks Highway.
Ask a Climatologist: Will May gloom bring summer doom?
May weather can’t tell us much about what the rest of the summer will hold in Southcentral Alaska.
Ask a Climatologist: The early arrival of ‘peak summer’ in Alaska
If you imagine a chart, ‘peak summer’ is the top of the annual temperature curve or the warmest part of the year. In Interior Alaska, that peak happens much earlier than most of the rest of the country.
Ask a Climatologist: Sizing up Alaska’s Summer
The outlook for June, July and August is for warmer than average temperatures for most of Alaska.
Ask a Climatologist: Alaska wins the daylight prize
In Utqiaġvik, the summer is longer than the winter by several weeks. The community has 84 days with 24 hour sunlight and only 65 days with no sunrise in winter.