Annie Feidt
Broadcast Managing EditorAnnie is the managing editor for broadcast at Alaska Public Media. She’s worked at Alaska Public Media since 2004 in various roles including producer, health reporter and managing editor for Alaska’s Energy Desk.
As broadcast managing editor, Annie helps guide and manage our main broadcast programs like Alaska News Nightly, Talk of Alaska and Alaska Insight. She also oversees a team of reporters focused on statewide issues.
Before coming to Alaska Public Media, Annie worked at CNN in Atlanta and Minnesota Public Radio. Outside of work, she can usually be found skiing, hiking or backpacking with her husband and daughter.
Reach Annie at afeidt@alaskapublic.org.
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Fairbanks hit 90 degrees last week for the first time in four years. The heat was very localized to the Tanana and Yukon river valleys.We asked Brian Brettschneider, with our Ask a Climatologist segment, which areas of Alaska usually see the hottest temperatures in the summer. He says the warmest temperatures are almost always found in the Interior. -
Wildfire season is off to a slow start in Alaska. But that could change very quickly. That’s because predicting how severe a wildfire season will be in the state is so tricky. Alaska’s Energy Desk is checking in with climatologist Brian Brettschneider each week as part of the segment, Ask a Climatologist.Brettschneider says over the entire season, which runs through the end of July, no wildfire forecast is useful for Alaska. -
May weather can't tell us much about what the rest of the summer will hold in Southcentral Alaska. Listen now -
If you imagine a chart, 'peak summer' is the top of the annual temperature curve or the warmest part of the year. In Interior Alaska, that peak happens much earlier than most of the rest of the country. Listen now -
Summer in Alaska is full of endless daylight, a few mosquitoes and also some pretty amazing or terrible weather, depending on the year. So how are forecasters sizing up the long term outlook for June, July and August? Listen now -
Alaska is once again the land of the midnight sun. If you live in Utqiaġvik (formerly Barrow), the sun won’t set again until August 2. Listen now -
Trees and shrubs are starting to turn green in much of Alaska. But Fairbanks is the only community in the state with an historical record tracking the green up date. Listen now -
After a cold winter, the month of April turned warmer than normal across the state. Listen now -
Winter is more or less over in most of Alaska. And if you like that kind of thing — winter, that is — it was pretty decent in much of the state. But climatologist Brian Brettschneider, with our Ask a Climatologist segment said don’t get used to it. He said that “normal” winter was a sweet spot of cold in a much larger bubble of warm. Listen now -
The National Weather Service issued its annual river breakup forecast this week. The forecast calls for a relatively mild breakup arriving about on schedule across Alaska. But what factors determine the timing and severity how it plays out? We put that question to climatologist Brian Brettschneider. Listen now
