TWO POWERFUL EARLY SEASON STORMS… WILL AFFECT MUCH OF ALASKA WITH STRONG WINDS AND HEAVY RAIN OVER THE NEXT FEW DAYS.
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK … SUN SEP 2 2012
THE FIRST STORM… WILL TRACK NORTHWARD ALONG THE WEST COAST OF ALASKA TONIGHT AND MONDAY…PRODUCING WIDESPREAD STRONG WINDS AND LOCAL HEAVY RAIN FROM THE EASTERN BERING SEA AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA TO THE GULF OF ALASKA AND SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA.
A SECOND MORE POWERFUL STORM WILL TAKE A NEARLY IDENTICAL PATH… ON TUES AND WEDS…PRODUCING STRONGER AND MORE WIDESPREAD WINDS ALL THE WAY FROM THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS TO MAINLAND ALASKA.
POWERFUL STORMS LIKE THESE ARE VERY TYPICAL IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER. HOWEVER…THEY ARE MUCH RARER THIS EARLY IN THE SEASON. WHEN SIMILAR WINDS ARE OBSERVED IN THE WINTER THERE MAY BE LITTLE OR NO DAMAGE.
A VERY NOTEWORTHY DIFFERENCE THIS TIME OF YEAR IS THAT THE GROUND IS NOT FROZEN AND ALL OF THE LEAVES ARE STILL ON THE TREES. THIS GREATLY INCREASES THE LIKELIHOOD OF FALLING TREES AND BRANCHES AS WELL AS POWER OUTAGES.
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And it’s only early September !
Anybody know if the snow all melted from last years extravaganza? Last I read in mid-July they still had copious amounts still on the ground.
No snow on the ground as reported in Anchorage, its all gone and the weather has been nice for weeks. I was in Anchorage last about three days ago.
Shhhh! Don’t tell that to the ice age alarmist! It will get their knickers in a twist.
Odd weather does happen you know. I saw 30cm of snow in the alpine valleys of Austria on July 15th 1981. There’s not been an ice age there since.
I saw temperatures of +23C at 1500m in Switzerland in early February 1990. There’s been reasonable ski-ing there in the past 22 years.
I”ve seen temporary droughts in the UK several times and we’ve always had compensatory rainfall within 3 years.
Tell me when there’s 2 metres of snow on the ground in late September, not in Barrow but in Anchorage or Juneau.
Then I”lll get worried about your ice age.
I agree with you that odd weather does happen. The point of mentioning the “odd weather” that looks like an ice age is that it’s not reported, but the “odd weather” that seems to support “global warming” is. So what is your problem? Anything really wrong with having both views reported? I think it is essential to keep balance in the reporting of “odd weather.”
The fact that colder than normal weather is happening on a GLOBAL level plus the fact that we are already overdue for the next Ice Age means we HAVE to pay more attention to cold/odd weather news rather than the global warmist nutbars who only look at small regional events and scream global warming.. It’s called self preservation.
yes it would be helpful if both sides in the climate debate did not resort to hyperbole so often.
So why do you even bother to visit this site? You obviously would rather stick your head in the sand than read the proof of what is REALLY happening. We shall continue to prepare and you can freeze your pancakes off.
Amen! This site is the Ice Age Alarmist while the media is the Global Warming alarmists.
(Sigh) I guess you can’t win.
Why does the NWS always have to YELL(all caps) in their statements about deemed important weather phenomena?
I also note they’re talking about “LOCAL HEAVY RAIN”, which may help melt any remaining snow and ice, unless freezing/frozen precip is expected at higher altitudes. For all their yelling, they don’t seem to say. Nevertheless, this could be the start of a trend that may make us all but forget about last years balmy Winter.
The reports have always been in Caps. It removes the confusion of what the numbers/letters are: i.e. 1 vs. L is easier to read than 1 vs l (lower case “L”).
In the report above, it would be easy to discern what is being said if they used mixed case. However, when you look at the station reports, they are in ‘code’ i.e. in a condensed format, and it could be confusing if they didn’t use all caps.
Last years Balmy winter? There was RECORD SNOW in Alaska last winter!
Look up Summer In March. All sorts of hot records were broken this year in the Midwest and the East.
In Calgary they had a hard time with skiing and were golfing in January due to a lack of snow cover.
Don’t tell me that it wasn’t warm!
if i am correct, last winter snow did not melt this summer….and now, early September blizzard.
Yeah, this is global warming for sure.
Yes.. the snow in Anchorage melted… those articles that talked about our snow wouldn’t go away I always thought were silly.
The winds here right now are really intense, if this were the midwest I’d be expecting a tornado. (I lived there many years and these winds remind me very much of that kind of weather.)