Tom Hewitt

Screenshot of the February daily climate summary for Fairbanks Airport from NWS showing the monthly snowfall total through February 23 of 36.1 inches.

Fairbanks February snowfall total through Monday up 36.1 inches (91.7cm), the second highest February total on record and the tenth highest for any calendar month since 1915. #akwx #Climate #Snow @themattphelps.bsky.social @tomhewittnews.bsky.social @bikewritedave.bsky.social

“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” is one of my favorite Christmas carols, but I can admit that “The which his mother Mary did nothing take in scorn” is an absolute dumpster fire of a bar.

It’s gross out there. Wistfully remembering the below-zero trick-or-treating of my youth.

Damn. Stay safe, northwest Alaska. Yet another reason why Congress rescinding public radio funds was a terrible, short-sighted action that will endanger Alaskans’ lives. These stations and the disaster updates they broadcast are an essential lifeline.

Ranch Dressing Sales Hit $1.3 Billion, Beats Ketchup as America's Favorite Condiment In a big surprise, ranch dressing pulled in $1.3 billion last year, pushing ketchup aside as the most popular condiment in American restaurants. This change shows how American eating habits...

People are out here buying more ranch than ketchup; we really missed the boat on a lucrative revenue stream hot969boston.com/2025/02/24/r...

If Alaska could have levied a production tax/royalty on sales of ranch dressing like we did Prudhoe Bay oil, we wouldn’t have the fiscal problems we do now 🤔

Municipal elections day in Alaska!

Thank you @adn.com for publishing my obituary for perhaps the most beloved bear in the world: the late, great, king 480 Otis.

Damage report from NWS Juneau with report from Elfin Cove of trees blown down, building collapses and rockslides.

This looks bad: Monday afternoon report of rock slides and building collapses at Elfin Cove, on Chichagof Island in northern Southeast Alaska. #akwx #ExtremeWeather @spiraledu.bsky.social @alaska.bsky.social

Always great to see @deephi11.bsky.social out on the Equinox course! Also grateful her house is only a few miles in, because this would be more of a painful hobble at mile 20 😂

I think it’s also a “lack of social graces” thing, but perhaps I’m being unkind.

I know that I will one day be old, but I hope I’m never “leaves my phone camera shutter noise on” old.

FNSB email is great! tom.hewitt@fnsb.gov

Two sandhill cranes in mid-flight against a pale blue evening sky. The nearer crane is sharply focused, its wings fully extended, showing brown feathers with a reddish crown and long neck stretched forward. Its legs trail straight behind in flight. The second crane is partly visible, slightly behind and out of focus, with wings arched upward. The blurred outlines of treetops sit low at the bottom edge of the frame.

Sandhill cranes at Creamer's Field earlier this evening.

#alaska #fairbanks

Hi Ramey - sorry, what am I avoiding? I’m not exactly following what you want from me here. I haven’t received any communication from you, so if you’ve sent something or called, that hasn’t come through, sorry.

I owe you a beer (or other beverage of your choice) when you get here!

The other day I saw a black convertible Corvette rolling around Fairbanks with the vanity plate TAX FRD, which is a… *bold* choice.

They've revised the Nenana quake to a magnitude 4.1, which feels more accurate to what we felt, I think.

None of that feels right to me; rare to feel anything that far away in the 3 range, especially for so long. But maybe there's something about it I'm missing.

Now seeing a 3 near Paxson but that's too small/far too, I think

Both of those seem too small for the duration of the one we felt, but who knows.

That was a weak but pretty long one. Usually means a larger one further away, but not seeing a high-magnitude quake at the AEIC website.

Hey @matthewkaminski.bsky.social, give me a hint on “War Pigs” for Schwarber; I’m not getting it.

I recognize exceptions exist, but as a general rule: Anchorage bad drivers tend to go too fast; Fairbanks bad drivers tend to go too slow. Agree or disagree?

I have one of those!

Six of these 11 have been during my lifetime. I’m totally OK with not adding a seventh. #akwx

what about plaid, tho

Been getting questions about this; thanks, Rick!

In Gorsuch, Conservative Activist Sees Test Case for Reshaping the Judiciary (Published 2017)

I'm confused... there has been quite a bit of coverage of Leo by the NYT, including this very direct piece from 2017, which is well before the author of that Medium post acknowledges the NYT paying attention to Leo as a story topic. www.nytimes.com/2017/03/18/u...

Funny, because some days we feel closer to 1950 than 2000.