Extreme Cold in Alaska, January 1 to 4, 2022

Name: Extreme Cold in Alaska, January 1 to 4, 2022
Start: 2022-01-01T00:00
End: 2022-01-04T00:00
Location: Alaska

January 1 to 4, 2022 · NWS AFG · 1 event in 1 county or zone

The combination of cold temperatures and winds from 15 to 25 mph produced dangerous wind chills around 65 below zero in the Eastern Interior January 1st to the 3rd 2022.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.

The combination of cold temperatures and winds from 15 to 25 mph produced dangerous wind chills around 65 below zero in the Eastern Interior January 1st to the 3rd 2022.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 31, 1:50 PM AKST, 10 hours 10 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 31, 1:50 PM AKST, 10 hours 10 minutes before

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Event by event

1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands

When: January 1, 12:00 AM AKST to January 4, 12:00 AM AKST
Where: Yukon Flats Nearby Uplands forecast zone
Reported by: Mesonet

What these are

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill: Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Alaska in 2022 Every state in 2022 This day in weather history Warnings in Alaska, January 2022

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1004584.