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Average monthly precipitation generally peaks in September or October, and is lowest in May and June. Owing to the rain shadow of the coastal mountains, south-central Alaska does not get nearly as much rain as the southeast of Alaska, though it does get more snow with up to 300 inches (7.62 m) at Valdez and much more in the mountains. On ...
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The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System is seen in the background. Toolik Lake is an Arctic lake located within the North Slope Borough, Alaska. It is in a remote wilderness area managed by the Bureau of Land Management accessed by the Dalton Highway. [1] It is 130 mi (210 km) south of Prudhoe Bay in the northern foothills of the Brooks Range. [2]
The Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, area was developed to house personnel, provide support for drilling operations, and transport oil to the Alaskan pipeline. [2] Prior to 1977, oil seeps (small pores or fissure networks through which liquid petroleum emerges at the surface of the land) [3] on the Arctic coastal plain had caught the attention of the U.S. petroleum interests. [2]
Umiat is the weather station with the lowest average annual temperature in the United States so far except for the Antarctic weather station. Climate data for Umiat, Alaska (1981–2010 normals, extremes 1945–2001)
Anchorage has a frost-free growing season that averages slightly over one hundred days. Average January low and high temperatures at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC) are 11 / 23 °F (−11.7 / −5.0 °C) with an average winter snowfall of 75.59 inches, or 1.92 meters. Farther afield at the Campbell Airstrip is another weather ...
Nov. 26—An Alaska Native-owned drilling company has installed what it says are the first wind energy turbines erected near Alaska's giant Prudhoe Bay oil field. The two 100-kilowatt turbines ...