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A strong parade of storms has been making its way through the North Central Pacific Ocean, and the location of the jet stream has produced colder storms for Unalaska and the Aleutian region this year. That’s according to Rick Thoman, a climate specialist at the International Arctic Research Center with the University of Alaska Fairbanks.

Winter doesn’t feel like it’s behind us, but technically it's already spring.

Some people in Bethel have called this the dreariest, wettest summer of their lives, and they're right. Last month was the wettest July in Bethel in over…

A storm that buffeted Bethel Monday night (April 15) clocked one of the highest recorded wind gust speeds in the city in at least 45 years.

Alaska is warming twice as fast as the rest of the U.S., and the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta is seeing the impacts faster than than most of the state. Rick…

Over the weekend, high temperatures recorded at the Bethel Airport were in the 40s. That’s around 15 degrees below normal. It’s the first time in more than 50 years that Bethel has seen back-to-back July days with highs that didn’t top 50 degrees.

There's been a real lack of sustained cold weather in the Y-K Delta this winter. Through Jan. 19, the lowest temperature in Bethel has only been minus 15.

No place in the Kuskokwim drainage has “anything like [...] normal snowpack.” And it’s been a decade since the Y-K Delta saw this sort of pattern of above-normal precipitation, low snow, and low snowpack.

Last year’s winter had a promising start in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta: temperatures were closer to the normal cold that residents expect. That changed in…

Wildfires have consumed nearly 2 million acres in Alaska so far this summer. In the Southwest part of the state, fires have scorched almost 500,000 acres…