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Areas of Dangerous Heat and Severe Thunderstorms

Dangerous heat will persist across the Southwest U.S. through Friday with daytime highs of 110-115°F. Heat across the southern Plains will briefly ease to near-normal by late week before returning over much of the Plains into next week. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms are possible across parts of the Northeast U.S. on Thursday. Damaging wind, hail, and a tornado or two are possible. Read More >

NWS Fairbanks Phone Outage May 20th 4 AM to 9 PM

Due to maintenance work being conducted by the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF) at the UAF Butrovich Data Center, there will be a telephone outage at the National Weather Service (NWS) office in Fairbanks on Saturday, May 20, 2023 from 4 AM to 9 PM. If you need to contact NWS Fairbanks during this time, you can utilize the following methods to contact us:

Email: fairbanks.weather@noaa.gov

Backup phone: 907-388-9361

 

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause.