Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 48 degrees. Ceiling 2000' in rain fog, visibility 8 miles. It rained most of yesterday and last night and is raining now. South wind at 6 knots.

Weather permitting, today is the end of our 2017 summer season which slipped by all too quickly. Many thanks to Wright Air Service, Brooks Range Aviation, our many guests and friends for making this summer exceptionally memorable.

See you down river.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 44 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast, visibility 5 miles - the Alatna Hills are disappearing in rain fog as I type. It poured rain early this morning. North wind at 10 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 38 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 7 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 8 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 36 degrees. Ceiling 5000' overcast with patches of fog, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 42 degrees. Ceiling 1000' in defined rain fog. Visibility 10 miles, however, the Alatna Hills are in a layer of rain fog. It rained hard all night and is raining now. South wind at 8 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 34 degrees. Ceiling 5000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. There is snow on the east and west ridge down to 1000'. North wind at 10 knots.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Current conditions: Improving. The winter snow squall affecting ceiling and visibility has apparently passed through for the moment. Ceiling 2000', visibility 10 miles. We have 1/2" of snow on the ground. The north wind continues at 15-20 knots.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Ceiling has disappeared, visibility 3 miles, it's snowing at 700', north wind sustained at 15 knots. Conditions deteriorating.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 36 degrees. Ceiling rapidly coming down with snow clouds at 1000'. Visibility deteriorating, currently 5 miles with snow clouds obscuring the Alatna Hills. The north wind blew steadily all night at 15 knots, is currently 10 knots, gusting to 15.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 34 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited, not a cloud in the sky. North wind at 10 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 3 knots. It rained most of the night, is not raining now. The sun is about to pop over the east ridge.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Current conditions: Deteriorating, shutting down. A system has moved in from the southwest affecting the ceiling and visibility. The ceiling is a scant 2000' undefined in rain fog. Visibility is 5 miles and closing with a white wall blocking out the Alatna Hills. It's raining. North wind at 5 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. It rained and blew all night. North wind at 5 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. It rained and blew hard all night and it's still raining and blowing. North wind at 10 knots, gusting to 15.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 46 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 10 knots, gusting to 15.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 34 degrees. Ceiling 6000 scattered, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 10 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 42 degrees. Ceiling 6000 scattered with large patches of morning fog. Visibility 10 miles. It rained and blew hard all night. Southeast winds at 8 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 38 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Winds are calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 42 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 4 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 34 degrees. Ceiling 6000 scattered, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 4 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling 5000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Slight southeast wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 42 degrees. Ceiling 500' in ground fog, visibility 7 miles barely to the Alatna Hills which are shrouded in ground fog, all of which will burn off in several hours. Slight southwest wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Well, the fire danger is down! It poured rain for the last 12 hours.

Barometer 29.6, temperature 46 degrees. Ceiling 2000' overcast with patches of morning fog, visibility 5 miles. There is a lot of moisture in the air after a night of nonstop rain. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.6, temperature 50 degrees. Ceiling 1000' fog bank which will burn off later this morning, visibility 10 miles with fog patches. South wind at 4 knots.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Current conditions: Shutting down. Ceiling unstable rain fog less than 500'. Visibility 1 mile. It's raining. Winds from the southeast at 5 knots. Temperature 52 degrees.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 47 degrees. Ceiling is down to 500' in rain fog, visibility is 4 miles in rain fog. It rained and blew all night. Southwest winds at 5 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 48 degrees. Ceiling 5000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. Looking southwest, the weather appears to be deteriorating. North wind is currently 10 knots gusting to 15.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.6, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Northeast wind 15 knots, gusting to 20.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 36 degrees. Ceiling unlimited, visibility zero at the moment due to morning ground fog on Iniakuk Lake. When that burns off, visibility will be unlimited. Winds calm.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

NOAA has been calling for 'rain showers' and 'sprinkles'. What we are experiencing now and have been all summer, is driving, pounding, concrete-busting torrential rain backed by flower-flattening winds! This is a far cry from a 'sprinkle' or wide-spread rainstorm.

Ceiling is becoming obscured with rain fog, visibility is 5 miles in rain fog. It's raining profusely and the temperature is dropping.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling is a temporary 2000' fog bank. Visibility 10 miles. It rained and blew hard all night but weather is cleaning up nicely and I can see blue sky to the north and overhead. Southeast winds at 5 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000 scattered, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling unlimited, visibility 10 miles. Slight southeast wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Slight southeast wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 46 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.2, temperature 46 degrees. Ceiling unlimited, visibility 10 miles. A band of morning fog is floating across Iniakuk Lake and will burn off when the sun pops over the east ridge. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.3, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000 scattered, visibility 10 miles. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.2, temperature 58 degrees. Ceiling 1000' fog bank that should burn off. Visibility 5 miles. There is a fog bank over the Alatna Hills that should burn off. It is not raining! Winds are calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling 2000' in rain fog, visibility 5 miles. I can see the outline of the Alatna Hills, but not clearly. Winds calm.

There is a lot of moisture in the air, it's likely as it gets later fog will gather over Iniakuk Lake.

NOAA has posted a flood advisory until 11:30P tonight.

I will post again in a few hours.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling is about 100' in dense rain fog, visibility 4 miles with a dense rain fog bank over the Alatna Hills. Looking north into the Alatna Valley, I cannot see the mountain behind the lodge or the west ridge. Southeast winds at 15 knots.

It rained and blew hard yesterday and last night.

NOAA has posted a flood advisory until 11:30P tonight.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Current conditions have deteriorated. Ceiling is lost in dense rain fog, visibility is 3 miles in dense rain fog. It has been constantly raining since 11pm last night. SE winds at 12 knots, gusting to 15.

As of  12:24P NOAA posted a small stream flooding advisory for the upper Noatak, Kobuk and Alatna River basins. We have water cascading down the west ridge and the Tobuk River inlet to Iniakuk Lake has risen considerably.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling 1000 in dense rain fog, visibility 10 miles but up and down. This is a very strong system that pushed through about 11p yesterday and roared with high winds and pouring rain all night. Winds have abated somewhat, but it's still raining hard. Southeast winds at 10 knots, gusting to 30 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.2, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. Light rain and rain squalls visible over the Alatna Hills. Slight south wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 44 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 58 degrees. Ceiling unlimited, visibility 10 miles. Southwest winds at 3 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 46 degrees. Ceiling unlimited with light smoke, visibility 7 miles in moderate smoke with a dense smoke bank visible beyond the Alatna Hills. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Current conditions: Rapidly improving. Both east and west ridge overlooking Iniakuk Lake are clear of morning fog. Looking north I can see the mountain clearly, looking south I can see the Alatna Hills and beyond. A few patches of morning fog remain in the Alatna Valley but will burn off shortly. Winds are calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 42 degrees. Ceiling unlimited, visibility 10 miles. At this hour morning ground fog is starting to gather across Iniakuk Lake but that will burn off as soon as it warms up a bit. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling 1500' fog bank, visibility 7 miles. Fog in low lying areas will burn or blow off in a few hours. South wind at 5 knots.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Current conditions: Deteriorating. Ceiling is down to the ground in rain fog, visibility 3 miles in thick rain fog. Winds have diminished. Southeast winds at 3 knots. I will post if conditions improve but getting the Google blog to load in these conditions is difficult.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 62 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. Southeast wind 10 knots, gusting to 15 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 48 degrees. Ceiling 6000 overcast, visibility 10 miles. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 50 degrees. Ceiling unlimited, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 5 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000 scattered, visibility 10 miles. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 62 degrees. Ceiling 6000 patchy, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 3 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 60 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Slight Southeast wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000' scattered, visibility 10 miles. Slight southwest wind. Wildfire smoke is barely noticeable.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 64 degrees. Ceiling 6000 broken, visibility 10 miles. Local smoke is much improved today, I can see the Alatna Hills clearly but dense smoke is lurking in the background. South winds at 4 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer, 30.0, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling unlimited in light smoke, visibility 7 good miles, possibly 10 in moderate smoke. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling 6000', visibility 5 miles, the Alatna Hills are not visible. Looking north, the big mountain is not visible but both east and west ridges are visible. Winds dead calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.2, temperature 60 degrees. Ceiling 6000' scattered in dense smoke. Visibility 5 miles in dense smoke. North wind at 3 knots.

At 11:22p last night, a T-storm passed through with a thunderclap so close and intense it caused the window in my sleeping house to concuss. It was like an explosion.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.2, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast with dense smoke. Visibility 5 miles in dense smoke. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 60 degrees. Ceiling 6000' light overcast, visibility 10 miles in light smoke and morning fog. North wind at 3 knots.

Update: Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Ceiling is 1000' in dense smoke, fog has lifted and sky is brightening. Visibility 8 miles. The Alatna Hills are marginally visible but not distinct. Slight south wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 56 degrees. Ceiling obscured by dense smoke. I can see Mt. Hal Waugh at 4000' east of Iniakuk Lodge, but further south on the east ridge, the ceiling drops to 1000' due to dense smoke. Visibility 5 miles, the Alatna Hills are not visible. Slight north wind.

I will post updates today.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 66 degrees. Ceiling 6000' broken, visibility 10 miles in light smoke. North wind at 10 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 44 degrees. Ceiling 6000' high overcast, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 46 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Not a cloud in the sky. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000' broken, visibility 10 miles. Wind calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 60 degrees. Ceiling 6000' slight overcast, visibility 10 miles. Southeast wind at 4 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 54 degrees. Ceiling 6000' scattered, visibility 10 miles. It rained most of the night. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 58 degrees. Ceiling 6000' scattered, visibility 10 miles. North wind at 3 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 48 degrees. Ceiling and visibility zero due to morning fog on the lake which will burn off in a few hours. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 58 degrees. Ceiling 1500' in morning rain fog. Visibility 5 miles, the Alatna Hills are partially obscured in rain fog. Winds calm.

Last evening T-storms and rain passed through, then at 1:00a torrential rain with absolutely no wind slowly moved through the Alatna Valley completely soaking everything.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 60 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast, visibility 10 miles. A strong front moved through last night about 9p with high winds and pelting rain, but didn't last long. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 44 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast, visibility 5 miles. There is a rain squall passing through obscuring the Alatna Hills. Slight south wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 48 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 38 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 50 degrees. Ceiling 6000' broken, visibility 10 miles. The wind blew hard all night, there are angry clouds over the Alatna Hills. Southeast wind at 10 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.2, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000' with light overcast, visibility 10 miles. Southeast winds at 3 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.3, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Slight south wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.2, temperature 40 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Not one cloud in the sky. Slight north wind.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.1, temperature 50 degrees. Ceiling and visibility unlimited. Southwest wind at 3 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.9, temperature 50 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast, visibility 10 miles. Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 48 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast, visibility 10 miles.
Winds calm.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 30.0, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 2000' overcast, visibility 10 miles. South wind at 3 knots. It rained most of the night, reducing the fire danger considerably.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000' overcast, visibility 10 miles. Slight misty rain. South wind at 5 knots.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.7, temperature 44 degrees. Ceiling 6000' scattered, visibility 10 miles. Winds calm. A beautiful day in a perfect place.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Barometer 29.8, temperature 52 degrees. Ceiling 6000' broken, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

Our Hughesnet Satellite Internet dish seems to need parts. Receiving is intermittent. We're working on it.

Iniakuk Lake Weather, Brooks Range, Alaska

Another full day was devoted to repositioning our Hughesnet Satellite Dish and hopefully the signal strength will hold.

Barometer 30.0, temperature a chilly 26 degrees. Ceiling 6,000' scattered, visibility 10 miles. Slight north wind.

It was 80 degrees and sweltering when we flew in on June 9 so the temps have changed considerably. We had 2 days of much-needed rain, the morning starts out cool as it is now and then a perfect day unfolds. Trumpeter Swans are in Pirate's Cove, seagulls on the spit out front, sipping freshly ground coffee, life is good.

Iniakuk Lake, Brooks Range, Alaska

We landed on Iniakuk Lake Friday, June 9, but Hughesnet had rearranged their satellite and it took John Gaedeke's expertise and 3 days to get reconnected. Sorry for the weather delay, we will be back on tomorrow.

Iniakuk Lodge 2017 Summer Season

We'll be coming around the mountain on Friday, June 9. Can't wait!

Iniakuk Lodge 2017 Summer Season

Good morning Brooks Range and Alatna Valley! The 2017 summer season is just around the corner and we are looking forward to our 43rd season of serving guests from around the world.