Fairbanks: 88°F highest temperature of the year.
May 18
Ester Dome, Ester: Pollen everywhere, Fairbanks broke world birch pollen record this year apparently. Good spruce tips and red cones (berry-like.) Red currants have small green berries. Blueberries have tons of flowers. Also flowering is highbush cranberry, bluebell, labrador tea, soapberry, nagoonberry, coltsfoot and many wildflowers. Wild rose has no flowers yet.
May 5
Fairbanks: Last freeze.
April 26
Fairbanks: Official Chena Ridge greenup day.
April 23
Tanana River, Nenana: Breakup day. Nenana Ice Classic tripod clock stopped at 15:39 AKDT.
April 17
Mat-Su: Greenup happened this weekend.
April 9
Fairbanks: End of seasonal snow cover.
October 29
Fairbanks: Establishment of seasonal snow cover.
September 22
Fairbanks: Birch leaves have nearly all dropped.
September 2
Fairbanks: First freeze.