The National Weather Service (NWS) issued several winter weather alerts for Alaska, with some areas expected to get up to 20 inches of snow while parts of the state are experiencing unusually warm ...

The latest National Climate Assessment predicts that by 2050, Alaska's average annual temperatures will be 2 to 4 degrees higher than what they were from 1971 to 1999.

JUNEAU, Alaska - A small southeast Alaska community reached 70 degrees last week, which weather data suggests is the earliest point that temperature has been reached in the state.

A “pandemic of snow” in Alaska is set to continue into the weekend as bleak forecasts predict more blizzards of snow and the lowest temperatures in 15 years with -30C expected.

“While Kodiak, Alaska, was reaching 67 degrees on Sunday afternoon, Seattle was more than 40 degrees colder, with 24-degree temperatures and snow falling,” said Miller.

Rick Thoman, a weather specialist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, called the conditions of the past few days "very unusual". Hours after thermometers on Kodiak Island in the south reached ...