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The Alaska State Climate Center
The Alaska State Climate Center
The Alaska State Climate Center
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Our departure maps are updated daily to show the difference between the current temperature and expected temperature, based on 30 years of previously values.

Arctic Sea Ice Extent: April 25, 2024

April 25, 2024:  The  sea ice has decreased this week at a slightly higher rate of 1.95% (as opposed to last week’s decrease rate of 1.61%), from the level on 04/18/2024 of 14.084 M km2 to 13.809 M km2 for this week. And so the change to the ...
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Break up time for 2024 (image courtesy of nenanaakiceclassic.com/)

Break up on the Tanana

The tripod on the Tanana river at Nenana fell over on April 27, 2024, at 05:18 am, triggering the clock that ends this year’s Nenana Ice Classic. The long standing tradition of betting on the day and time of the river break up at Nenana has produced a long and unique climatological time series of river ...
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