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Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Fairbanks AK
311 PM AKST Wed Dec 3 2025

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Upper Chena River Valley-Tanana Flats-Eielson AFB and Salcha-
Goldstream Valley and Nenana Hills-Chatanika River Valley-
Two Rivers-Fairbanks Metro Area-Nenana-
Including Chena Hot Springs,
Chena Hot Springs Road east of MP 34, Birch Lake,
the Richardson Highway from MP 295 to MP 317, Eielson AFB,
Salcha, Moose Creek, Harding Lake,
the Richardson Highway from MP 317 to MP 346, Ester Dome,
Murphy Dome, the Parks Highway from MP 325 to MP 342, Haystack,
the Elliott Highway from MP 1 to MP 32,
the Steese Highway from MP 12 to MP 85, Two Rivers,
Chena Hot Springs Road from MP 12 to MP 34, Fairbanks,
Fort Wainwright, Ester, North Pole, Fox, Nenana,
and the Parks Highway from MP 290 to 325
311 PM AKST Wed Dec 3 2025

...Very Cold and Windy This Weekend...

A very cold Arctic airmass will drift south over the area Thursday
through this weekend. This, combined with high pressure building
to the north, will bring very cold conditions along with
increasing northeast winds and very cold wind chills. Hills will
likely see northeast winds gusting to 30 mph with temperatures in
the teens below zero, bringing wind chills as cold as 50 below
zero. Areas of blowing snow are possible as well. Valley
temperatures will drop into the 20s and 30s below zero with
intermittent wind gusts mixing out the inversion to bring brief
periods of warmer temperatures, but still very cold wind chills.

This looks to be the beginning of a prolonged period of very cold
conditions with the Arctic airmass and clear skies sticking
around through next week. As winds diminish toward the early to
middle part of next week, valley temperatures in the 40s and 50s
below zero are not out of the question.

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