Live video cams around Alaska

Every so often I like to take a look at what my old stomping grounds look like in Alaska today. I often talk about Fairbanks, Alaska so thought many might like to see what an area around Fairbanks looks like from a video cam. Note the current temperature and that there are no igloos.

http://wwwndo.ak.blm.gov/live.html

This link is to almost all video cams available on line in Alaska. Make sure you check the 360 degree views. Outstanding. Note the snow, called turmination dust, on the mountains just east of Anchorage.

http://www.akmining.com/webcams.htm

There are a few bush airports in Alaska that have state funded live video cams available for information to pilots but not meant for flight planning though.

Ernie,

There is an extensive network of weather cameras at airports throughout Alaska. They are now accessable to FSS briefers, for use in briefing pilots, as well as pilots for pre-flight self briefing,

http://akweathercams.faa.gov/map.php

This system is a great resource, and every state and region should look at these cameras as a potential inexpensive means of providing weather where none is currently available.

MTV

Thanks for the the added information MTV and am sure everyone appreciates it.

Lets consider the guys from outside thinking about flying into the bush of Alaska. Combine those video cams you mentioned along with the web site provided by the FSS web site out of Fairbanks showing actual photos of an airport from the air in the bush, I would suspect it would be a great help for someone going into the bush of Alaska for the first time. Even SJ? In my days, if we made it, great, if we didn't, who would know.

Having worked and set up aviation computer systems in remote Alaska since 1972 , it is a wonder to me that such a system has not been offered before but than I have to remember, that would be government.

mvivion said:

Ernie,

There is an extensive network of weather cameras at airports throughout Alaska. They are now accessable to FSS briefers, for use in briefing pilots, as well as pilots for pre-flight self briefing,

http://akweathercams.faa.gov/map.php

This system is a great resource, and every state and region should look at these cameras as a potential inexpensive means of providing weather where none is currently available.

MTV

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I see that Alaska will get $5 million in the next federal budget to install additional weather cams in passes throughout the state.

Also included in that budget is $37 million for the Capstone project which places high-tech position monitoring equipment in private aircraft.