Ask a Climatologist: Alaska’s lucky winter

Attendance numbers spiked at Eaglecrest Ski Area in Juneau thanks to fresh snowfall as seen here on March 5, 2017. (Photo courtesy of John Erben)
Winter is more or less over in most of Alaska.  And if you like that kind of thing — winter, that is — it was pretty decent in much of the state. But climatologist Brian Brettschneider, with our Ask a Climatologist segment says don’t get used to it. He says that “normal” winter was a sweet spot of cold in a