Fairbanks snow depth below average for October!!

Little snow means more ground freezing!! frost tube reaches 21cm at Birch Hill today. Temperature rises little bit in this weekend by the Chinook. Chinook Arch makes beautiful sunset!

Denali!

the National Weather Service said 4.2 inches of snow had fallen at Fairbanks International Airport. That compares to just 2.4 inches at the same time last year. The normal snowfall through that date is 9.2 inches.

Snow depths around Fairbanks range from 2 to 4 inches.

The average snow depth in Fairbanks on Oct. 22 for the past 30 years is just more than 3 inches. During that same time, the snow depth at the airport on Oct. 22 has ranged from as much as 10 inches in 1992 to just a trace or none in five of those 30 years.

The average monthly snowfall in October, which is typically the second-snowiest month of the winter, is 10.8 inches.

Read more: Fairbanks Daily News-Miner – Fairbanks snow depth below average for October