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Warnings/Hazards

Forecasts

  • Public Forecasts - Zone forecasts, Area Forecast Discussion, Short-Term Forecast, Weather Roundup, etc.
  • Marine Forecasts - Arctic Coastal Waters Forecast, Sea Ice Advisory, AK Buoy and Coastal Obs, and Marine Weather Statement
  • Hydro Forecasts - Hydrological forecasts, discussions, outlooks, and summaries
  • Aviation Forecasts - Aviation Area Forecast for Northern Alaska and elsewhere

Public Statements

  • Public Information - Used to distribute information regarding hydrometeorological events; public education; service changes, limitations or interruptions; and special guidelines for interpreting data
  • Special Weather - Provide information concerning ongoing or imminent weather hazards
  • Record Event Report - Contains meteorological and hydrological events that equal or exceed routine existing records; used to report occurrences relating to both maxima and minima records
  • Local Storm Report - Provides reported observations of hazardous weather events; also serves as the primary basis for the official monthly publication “Storm Data”

Climate

  • Prelim LCD (F6) - Barrow Preliminary Local Climatological Data (LCD), WS Form F-6; provides various statistics about temperatures, precipitation, snow depth, wind, and other data in a tabular format; link is updated for the current month's data after summaries for the previous month have been issued
  • Local - Daily Climate Reports and Monthly Weather Summaries for Barrow, Bettles, Big Delta, Fairbanks, Kotzebue, and Nome; both most recent reports/summaries and archived data are available
  • Alternate Data Link - An alternate link that gives access to climate reports from not only the Barrow NWS, but all other NWS offices statewide; check here if data under the "local" link is outdated
  • Climatology - Historical climate data for selected sites
  • National - Temperature and precipitation data for the United States and its territories; available in graphical and textual formats
  • More... - Climate Prediction Center climate forecasts are provided, CDC climate information, as well as El Niño/La Niña, drought information, and other climate pattern information

Weather Data

  • Observations - Current surface and upper-air weather observations for sites around the state
  • Observations Map - Graphical plot of surface observations over northern Alaska (from about Fairbanks northward); map courtesy of AAWU
  • AK Wx Roundup - Current weather conditions around the state in a simple, tabular format; parameters given: sky condition/weather, temperature, relative humidity, wind, pressure, wind chill, and visibility
  • AK Wx Summary - Plain language summary of recent weather conditions across the state
  • Region Temp/Precip - Tabular product containing maximum and minimum temperatures, liquid equivalent of precipitation, snowfall, and snow depth
  • State Temp/Precip - Statewide tabular product containing maximum and minimum temperatures, liquid equivalent of precipitation, and snow depth
  • Satellite (POES) - Polar orbiting satellite images and loops (better image clarity for northern AK than GOES but images are less frequent)
  • Satellite (GOES) - Geostationary satellite images and loops (new images about every 30 min, but cloud elements are distorted over northern AK)

Statewide Areas

  • TV Weather - TV weather images from the public television show "Alaska Weather"
  • Ice Desk - Graphical analyses of sea surface temperatures and sea ice
  • Fire Weather - Forecasts and graphical products pertaining to wildfires
  • Aviation - The Alaska Aviation Weather Unit (AAWU)
  • Marine Weather - Marine zone forecast map with forecasts via a 'point-and-click' interface
  • Hydrology - Alaska-Pacific River Forecast Center; provides a multitude of text products and graphs...includes snow depth and water equivalency of snow
  • Tsunami Warning Center - West Coast & Alaska Tsunami Warning Center

Information

  • Weather Offices - National Weather Service offices located around the state
  • AK Wx Info Line - Information about the Alaska Weather Information Line, telephone access to weather information
  • NOAA Careers - Comprehensive recruitment website, designed to showcase NOAA Career Opportunities and all that NOAA has to offer

Weather Safety

  • Storm Ready - Information regarding preparing for severe weather
  • Tsunami Ready - Information regarding preparing for tsunami
  • Weather Radio - A list of NOAA Weather Radio transmitter locations, call signs, frequencies, and programming offices for Alaska

WSO Barrow
Post Office Box 149
Barrow, AK 99723-0149
Voice: 1-907-852-6484
Fax: 1-907-852-4445
Recorded Forecast: 1-800-472-0391
Webmaster Email: ARH Webauthors
Page Modified: 03 Feb 2008 18:00 UTC
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