Kincaid Park in west Anchorage: for just the fourth time in the past 34 years, no snow remaining on the April 1st measurement at the USDA/Natural Resources Conservation Service snow course. #akwx #weather #Snow #Spring2024 @Climatologist49 @EyeOnAlaska @EBecker

forgot to set date and time on camera, mainly cause i really only did it once. It must have been without battery for too long and reset the date to my photos to Dec 12 2012. now i have to update this tag on about 100 photos i took think i will just use VB i can write that in a min to go through the whole folder. just have to remember the property names to change so the meta date is correct too....
#Peonies #Spring2024 #Flowers #Bloom

May 2024 temperature departures from 1991-2020 normal around the Arctic show a coherent pattern with three main areas of above normal temperatures and three areas of below normal. The warmth in the Nordic Arctic and parts of Canada was notable, while SW Greenland and the western Russian Arctic were notably cool. For the #Arctic overall (land & sea poleward of 60ºN), the May average temperature was 0.4ºC above normal but the coolest May since 2018. #Climate #Canada #Spring2024 @Climatologist49

May was generally cooler than normal across Alaska, but especially in southwest and in the Bering Strait/northwest Arctic regions. Bethel, King Salmon and Kodiak all saw the coolest May in more than a decade. #akwx #Climate #Spring2024
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It's kind of a mess, but the bees and other insects seem to like it.
#gardening #spring2024 #bees

Alaska wildfire in May was very close to the long term median. Cumulative area burned this season 6699 acres (2711 ha). Most of that from the Popovitch Creek Coal Seam fire (3954 acres) and Atchuelinguk fire (2200 acres). May wildfire tells us exactly nothing about the season as a whole. The weather now through early July will make or break the season: warm and dry, cloudy and wet, thunderstorms or not. #akwx #Wildfire #Alaska #Spring2024
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The Atchuelinguk wildfire is burning in tundra in the lower Yukon River area north of Marshall in western Alaska (Yupik county). This is prime time for tundra wildfire: after snowmelt but before vegetation green-up, so last year’s dried grass and brush. #akwx #Wildfire #Spring2024

https://akfireinfo.com/2024/05/29/blm-afs-monitoring-large-tundra-fire-in-western-alaska/

The VIIRS snow/cloud discriminator image Wednesday afternoon showing increase areas of bare ground on the north side of the Brooks Range and ice or open water on the northward following rivers, but still snow cover across most of the low elevation North Slope (yes, higher elevation snow melting first is normal in this region). Large area of open water also evident off the Alaska Chukchi Sea coast. Image courtesy UAF/GINA. #akwx #Arctic #Spring2024 #SeaIce @Climatologist49 @cinderbdt @Jdnome

The peonies are soon over - but so spectacular!
#peonies #gardenflowers #spring2024

Skiff of new snow Sunday at Anaktuvuk Pass (elevation 2100 ft, 630m, North Slope, Inupiat county). At 3pm AKDT 28F (-2.2C), north winds 14 mph. Webcam image courtesy FAA. #akwx #Spring2024 #weather
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First whitetail fawn, in our yard, this year.
#Spring #spring2024 #springtime #deer #Animals #WildLife #wildlifephotography

Fairbanks Airport 0.52 inches (13.2mm) of rain since Thursday afternoon, making this the highest 24-hour May precip total since 2012. Eielson AFB reported 0.68 inches (17.3mm) of rain. Hopefully this will put the kibosh on the accumulating pollen. #akwx #Spring2024 @Climatologist49 @leahwrenn @CarrieinFbx @anisian @KarenLikesRocks @debmcqueen @mivox

Fairbanks Airport high temperature 72F (22.2C) Tuesday afternoon, the highest temperature since late last August. #akwx #weather #Spring2024
@CarrieinFbx @anisian @leepetersen @Climatologist49

the first peony!

Teltin Hills wildfire burning about 2 miles south of the Alaska Highway in the upper Tanana valley between Tok and Tetlin. Friday afternoon estimated at 280 acres (113ha). #wildfire #Alaska #Spring2024
@CarrieinFbx @anisian @leepetersen @mivox
https://akfireinfo.com/2024/05/17/smoke-from-tetlin-hills-fire-visible-south-of-alaska-highway/

#Bloomscrolling
#irises
#spring2024