Annie Feidt, Alaska’s Energy Desk

Communities across the state are cold and snowy and that weather trend is expected to stick around.

Alaska has settled into a notable stretch of seriously cold weather. Communities around the state are enduring low temperatures they haven’t seen in a few years.

In Alaska, a white Thanksgiving is usually a given for most of the state. But not this year. The entire state is below normal for snowfall.

This late in the fall, the Arctic Ocean sea ice should be forming near the community of Barrow. Instead, the ocean is open for hundreds of miles.

The first snowfall in Anchorage came nearly right on schedule. On average, the city has at least a trace of the white stuff on October 16th, four days earlier than the date of this year’s first snow. Anchorage climatologist Brian Brettschneider keeps track of first snowfalls around the state, along with lots of other climate…

An appeals court today upheld a federal decision to list a species of ice seals as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.