Barrow is at -2C this morning under hours of clear skies. Barter Island at -1C. Not going to get much freezing done in this pattern. CAA will have to make up the difference.
Yes. Not much freezing in this part of Arctic and right up the Russian side.
But then again it isn't exactly the big Chinook and melt you were talking about 4 days ago either.
Wouldn't get too comfy. Downsloping flow doesn't really get going until late tonight and tomorrow over NW Alaska as the core of stronger southerly flow aloft shifts eastward from the Strait. Shows up particularly well on the 850 charts. Not much has changed from when this was a 96 hour forecast.
And it did deliver high temperatures through much of northern Alaska, later on Oct 1st.
(as this image from Rick Thoman shows). Notable is the record Oct high of 58 F at Umiat.
Good to see the full network of stations as there are large changes over short distances. Alaska is vast and the number of usual metar reporting stations is quite small.
Notable too is that the high temps never reached the north shore, with maxes only just above freezing at Utqiagvik/Barrow, Deadhorse and Kaktovik. The cold Beaufort Sea still holding influence there.
Judging by recent sat pics, the snow extent in NE Alaska appears unchanged. Recent days have shown a considerable difference between the snowier NE Alaska and the rest of the state. The ice remains close to the NE of Alaska - the cold Beaufort SSTs and low angle sun limiting the effects of this large High Pressure bulge there.