Brian Brettschneider
Climatologist
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Oct 16, 2026
October 16, 2026
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4:37Brooke SchaeferHOST
As a potentially historic El Nino heats up, snow predictions across Alaska this winter are unfortunate.
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4:44Brooke SchaeferHOST
That's according to Brian Brettschneider.
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4:46Brooke SchaeferHOST
He's a senior climate scientist with the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center in Anchorage.
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4:53Brian BrettschneiderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Strong El Nino winters are terrible for snow.
Alaska Morning News: October 15, 2026 8am
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2:05Eva WhiteHOST
As a potentially historic El Niño heats up, snow predictions across Alaska this winter are unfortunate.
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2:12Eva WhiteHOST
That's according to Brian Brettschneider.
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2:14Eva WhiteHOST
He's a senior climate scientist with the National Weather Service Climate Prediction Center in Anchorage.
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2:19Brian BrettschneiderSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Strong El Niño winters are terrible for snow.
Wisconsin’s award-winning mesonet system; Exploring the state’s corn crop and the impact of corn ethanol
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2:46Chris VagaskyGUEST
Everybody always likes to say, if you don't like the weather in Wisconsin, wait five minutes.
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2:50Chris VagaskyGUEST
We're knowing now, is that weather changing every five minutes or not? And a friend of mine, a colleague of mine, a climatologist in Alaska, Dr.
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3:01Chris VagaskyGUEST
Brian Brettschneider, he actually did an analysis of weather stations across the country to see how much of a swing you get in temperature every five minutes.
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3:11Chris VagaskyGUEST
And it's actually the mountainous areas of the United States that see those types of swings more often than Wisconsin or the desert or the high plains or anything like that.
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80:52Tyler LarkGUEST
But we also have to put them on a level playing field.
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80:55Tyler LarkGUEST
Corn is an incredibly productive crop.
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80:57Tyler LarkGUEST
There's a reason corn is king, right? And we've also had about 100 years of research and development into it and advancing those yields, improving the refining processes, making it more environmentally friendly to the extent that we can.
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81:11Tyler LarkGUEST
and some of these other new nascent emerging crops or biofuel pathways have really only had a decade or two of serious investment in research and development.
Over 16000 People MISSING from ONE State Since 1988
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14:28Steve StocktonHOST
Cold weather, of course, happens too.
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14:31Steve StocktonHOST
Fairbanks dropped to fifty below zero for the first time in five years recently, with Anchorage climatologist Brian Brettschneider saying, triggering spooky ice fog across the city.
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14:41Steve StocktonHOST
Ice fog occurs when tiny ice particles are suspended in the air when temperatures fall lower than about twenty-two below zero.
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14:50Steve StocktonHOST
Now, is it possible that there are aliens in Alaska and within this triangle? According to the National UFO Reporting Center, since nineteen ninety-eight, there have been over five hundred and sixty reported UFO sightings in Alaska, with the majority of the sightings being in, you guessed it, the Alaskan Triangle.