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While we’re talking about FCC censorship, rest assured that Alex Jones is still on the air every night on KFAR Fairbanks. I wonder if the KFAR sponsors know that?
September 18, 2025 at 12:09 AM
This ADN story evoked one of the first scenes in “Interstellar” where a farmer scavenges the control computer of a similarly crashed drone. I wonder if the Kenai Pennisula drone was found with all its parts? #InterstellarMovie #VanillaUnmanned #UAV #UAS www.adn.com/alaska-news/...
Young Murph: What are you gonna do with it? Cooper: I'm going to give it something socially responsible to do. Like drive a combine. Young Murph: Can't we just let it go? It wasn't hurting anybody. Cooper: This thing needs to learn how to adapt, Murph. Like the rest of us.
August 23, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Some Perseid meteors with Aurora 8/11/25 night from Keystone Ridge NW of Fairbanks using GMN software and camera built from GMN plans. No doubt there were more meteors, but sky does not get very dark during mid-August evenings in Fairbanks. #GlobalMeteorNetwork #Aurora #Fairbanks #FairbanksSky
Composite black and white image of 38 Perseid meteor tracks with Aurora in the background from evening 8/11/2025.
August 13, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Some of the smoke is making it to the ground. From PurpleAir.com
PurpleAir.com pm2.5 measurements on map across central Canada and upper US Midwest. Red and purple dots indicate higher values
July 31, 2025 at 3:28 PM
These trail across the yard along a drainage in May
July 4, 2025 at 1:40 PM
47°F and broken overcast with brief heavy showers at 9:30am on Keystone Ridge. 0.07” precipitation in the last 24 hours with showers passing through at 9pm and 3am. Brief sunny intervals suggest good rainbow hunting. #myalaskawx
May 24, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Spring maintenance on the trusty 4 wheeler. CV joint boot replacement. Messy but easy.
Honda 4 wheeler shaft removal. Detach shock and lower bracket. Front wheel drive axle removed. Note inner boot ripped, outer boot intact. Outer joint race, minus ball bearings.
May 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
From Geist and Parks Hwy looking NW after Mondays thunder shower out west of Fairbanks. Looks like shower collapsed in on itself. #MyAlaskaWx
Black,grey, and white clouds in a blue sky with a yellow sun just above the horizon. Spruce trees are silhouetted against the sky in the foreground.
May 21, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Compact thunder shower passed over Keystone Ridge at 6:15pm. 0.20” of rain with pea sized hail. Occasional lightning and thunder. #myalaskawx
Pea sized hail covers a messy muddy road surrounded by birch trees. Rain streaks below gray overcast skies above spruce and birch. Leafout is visible on birches
May 19, 2025 at 2:53 AM
45°F and light S breeze at 9:30am on Keystone Ridge. No precip since 6May and RH still >30% at mid day.
Ruby-crowned kinglet singing up a storm.
Clearing out icestorm deadfall and ladder fuels. Many spruce broke in half creating new ladder fuel as the tops dangle to the ground. #myalaskawx #firewise
Cut black spruce deadfall trees lying on the driveway’s brown rocky bank. Red sled and trailer partially loaded with wood along the drive. Sky is deep blue and cloudless.
May 17, 2025 at 6:29 PM
We wrote a letter to Sen Sullivan in response to the many public employees fired and programs terminated within NOAA and the NWS and the increased risk to Alaskans.
Ironically, Sullivan defended the reckless acts of the president quoting the “Take Care Clause” of the constitution. 🙄
Article II, Section 3 of the Constitution states, in part, "[The President] shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed." This clause, the Take Care Clause, has been cited by constitutional scholars and lawyers for generations as the basis for why the President can delay or withhold funds that have been authorized by Congress.
May 13, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#SilentSunday
May 5, 2025 at 5:47 AM
31°F in fog with calm winds at 1650 ft on Keystone Ridge at 7:30am. 3/4” of new wet snow accumulation overnight. #myalaskawx
Fresh snow on a porch rail with a ruler showing snow depth of 3/4” or 2 cm. Partially melted snow piles and snowy spruce trees in the background. Some broken trees are visible from an earlier ice/snow storm. Sky is grey and overcast.
May 3, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Rocket 3 from the AWESOME mission series of Poker Flat Launchs. Video is the entire Fri-Sat night. Launch appears at ~47sec in the video or 09:33 UTC. #PFRR #UAF
March 30, 2025 at 7:03 PM
25Mar2025 near Murphy Dome,AK includes two rocket launches from Poker Flat Rocket Research Range. Rocket 1 at ~11:57UTC (01:09 min in video) and Rocket 2 at ~12:31UTC (01:15 min in video). Flock of starlink (?) satellites pass through the field of view at 12:20UTC (01:13 min in video). #PFRR #UAF
March 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Quiet auroral arc with stars shining brightly on a clear night with no moon.
Green auroral arc with constellation Cassiopeia in the background. And spruce trees in the foreground.
December 3, 2024 at 12:20 AM
thealaskacurrent.com/2024/01/04/a...
The sprawling campaign to overturn Alaska’s voter-approved open primary and ranked-choice voting election system — which included funneling money through a church — has been slapped with nearly $100,000 in fines for more than a dozen violations of state campaign law.
January 5, 2024 at 12:39 AM
Midday sun in Fairbanks. Still an hour before solar noon.
Yellow orange Sun breaking out of hazy overcast shortly before solar noon when the sun is only 2.5° above the horizon.
January 4, 2024 at 9:48 PM
Sunrise in 1 1/2 hours on Keystone Ridge, nw of Fairbanks. 15°F no wind and clear. #MyAlaskaWx
Morning twilight under clear sky. Deep orange over rugged mountains, grading to green blue and purple above the horizon. Spruce and birch trees silhouetted in the foreground.
January 1, 2024 at 6:21 PM