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In its outlook for October, November and December, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center said Southeast has equal chances of temperatures and precipitation that are above, below and near normal.

Back in 1970 on July 19, it snowed 9.7 inches at the Summit weather station just south of Cantwell on the Parks Highway.

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.

Across the globe, the entire atmospheric circulation pattern is driven by temperature differences between the tropical latitudes and the Arctic.

For most of the state, the entire month of March has been clear and cold.

This week, we’re responding to a listener who asked whether it’s true that sea ice in Antarctic waters has been generally increasing, while Arctic sea ice has seen dramatic declines.

It’s a record year for dense fog in Anchorage. No other winter comes even close. Since Dec. 1, Anchorage has seen 26 days of fog with visibility of a quarter mile or less.

A low pressure system that contains a lot of cold air is locked into place over much of Alaska.

Ice fog is a cold phenomenon. It has to be way below zero before it can form.