This weekend, Kodiak Island broke the record for the warmest December temperature in the state. The Kodiak Tide Gauge station on the east side of the island recorded 67 degrees on Sunday. That balmy high comes after one of the coldest Novembers on record for the island. “It was a very rare occurrence,” said Tim Markle, a meteorologist with the …
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Data from federal meteorologists suggests this past November may have been one of the coldest on record in Kodiak. Temperatures dipped anywhere from 2 to 24 degrees below average, but that unusual cold snap wasn’t record-breaking. That’s because of a technicality, according to Joe Wegman, a forecaster with the National Weather Service in Anchorage. “Unfortunately we can’t say for sure, …
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The National Weather Service canceled out Kodiak’s blizzard warning, but that doesn’t mean the snow is letting up completely. NOAA meteorologist Michael Kutz said Kodiak is still expecting another couple inches Wednesday night, and lingering flurries into Friday. As for Tuesday night’s blizzard? Kutz says, based on data from weather spotters positioned around town, Kodiak received 11 inches of snow …
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Brrrrr! It’s cold out there. The official temperature at the airport was a big goose egg at noon today — 0 degrees. KMXT received the following Nixle message from the Kodiak Police Department. Official temp at noon in Kodiak on Jan. 2 was zero.This thermometer is from a home in Bells Flats Thursday morning. Photo: KMXT/Maggie Wall. The …
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On today’s Talk of the Rock, KMXT’s Mitch Borden speaks with representatives from the National Weather Service about their outreach in Kodiak and tsunami preparedness.
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Tsunami hazard zone sign. (Photo by hansol / Flickr) Kayla Desroches/KMXT Representatives from the National Weather Service visited schools in the City of Kodiak last week to speak about tsunami readiness. Forecaster Joe Wegman says the original goal of visiting the city was to check in on the weather stations, where local observers keep track of things like daily temperature, …
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On Sunday, January 1st, after all 366 days of 2016 had come and gone, a climate scientist with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks finished a project that literally required the entire year’s worth of data. Rick Thoman, is the client science and services manager for the National Weather Service Alaska Region. He looked at temperatures around the entire state …
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National Weather Service forecasters have revised their December predictions for much of the Lower 48 and Alaska, according to an announcement released Thursday. Citing what they call a “highly amplified ridge” over the Bering Sea that stretches to the Lower 48 and an Arctic high pressure system with an “anomalous” northerly flow, the Climate Prediction Center is forecasting temperatures to …
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