FEMA Announces $108 Million Awarded to Merbok Related Projects
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and the Alaska Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management (DHSEM) announced the approval of $108.8 million for Alaskan communities reeling from 2022’s Typhoon Merbok. The storm’s 75 mph winds, relentless rain, and unusually high sea swells flooded communities across western Alaska. Following a formal request from Governor Mike Dunleavy, […]
National Weather Service Will Cut Rural Alaska Staff By Two-Thirds
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NWS is replacing manual weather balloon launches with Finnish-made automatic launchers in its 12 rural-Alaska weather stations.
Shrinking Sea Ice
![An aerial view of near-shore ocean ice near the village of Shaktoolik, Alaska.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/2016-01-08-static-misc-001-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
KNOM airs three daily reports of sea ice location in Western Alaska. This information has been especially important lately, as local sea ice cover has continued to decline, year over year, bringing severe impacts to our listeners.
Climate and Weather Data Show Significant Changes In Nome, Bering Sea, and Alaska
![National Weather Service Models' projections of sea-ice freeze up for 2017-2018. Photo/Graphic courtesy of Rick Thoman with NWS (2017)](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sea-Ice-Data.jpg)
National Weather Service observations show that, since 1900, water temperatures in the Bering Sea between June and August have been gradually rising. With that in mind, NWS says a weak to moderate La Niña is possible in Alaskan waters this winter.
AM Transmitter Woes
![The KNOM AM transmitter site, surrounded by snowy tundra.](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2016-02-03-static-misc-033-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
KNOM’s AM transmitter, now in its third decade of service, is nearing the end of its usable life. As multiple outages in recent months have shown, the time has come to replace it.
Smoke in the Sky!
![Smoke in Nome's weather forecast](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Smoke-iPhone-2432px-1200x800.jpg)
Daily life in Alaska is predictably unpredictable, and this summer’s weather in Western Alaska was no exception.
Keeping the station warm
![Our new boiler](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-03-07-boiler-install-2-1216px-2-1200x800.jpg)
It might seem like a routine or prosaic replacement, but for a radio station in the sub-Arctic, it’s utterly crucial: last month, KNOM replaced the boiler in its studios (as pictured, mid-replacement, above). Our studio boiler, which generates the heat for the ambient temperature of the building, had been in need of a permanent fix […]
Iditarod: a red-letter year
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As part of our April 2014 newsletter, take a look back at an incredible, exceptional Iditarod: both for our radio mission and for the Last Great Race itself.
A very strange winter thaw
![January thaw in Nome](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/2014-01-27-january-melt-iPhone-1-1216px-1200x900.jpg)
The streets looked like springtime, and the air was so warm – by Alaskan standards, at least – it might have been mistaken for summer. But the date wasn’t in May or June; it was late January. On January 27th, Nome broke a high temperature record not just for the day, but for the winter […]
Three years ago, ten years ago
![Ric shoveling](https://knom.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/RicShoveling-1216px-1200x800.jpg)
While Nome has experienced a relatively warm winter this year – with widespread melting and relatively little snow to speak of – winter in our region is, as you might expect, often the opposite. Here are two examples. In 2011, only three years ago, our snow cover – and our exposure to heavy winter storms […]