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Snowzilla (snowman) Coordinates: 61.20675°N 149.81802°W. Snowzilla is a giant snowman which has been erected each pre-Christmas season since 2005 in the front yard of private resident Billy Powers ' home in Anchorage, Alaska. Keeping good on a promise to return again some day, Snowzilla reappeared in snowy and cold December 2023.
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 ...
The city of Anchorage, Alaska, could see its snowiest November ever – and the snowfall so far this month has already spelled misery for residents, quickly burying roads and prompting an ...
Nov. 13—Expand Autoplay Image 1 of 11 Sarah Gibson shovels her driveway in the Chugach Foothills subdivision during the snowfall on Monday, Nov. 13, 2023. (Bill Roth / ADN) Just days after ...
Nov. 8—A winter storm that proved challenging to forecast this week is bringing heavy snow to Anchorage and other regions in Southcentral Alaska. The city's storm total could be higher if lower ...
Thompson Pass, as seen in May 2009. Thompson Pass is a 2,600 foot-high (855 meter-high) gap in the Chugach Mountains northeast of Valdez, Alaska. [1] It is the snowiest weather station in Alaska, recording 500 inches or 13 metres of snow per year on average. [2] In the winter of 1952–1953, 974.1 inches or 25 metres of snow fell—the most ...
Nov. 17—A squall that dropped barely in inch of snow Friday morning added just enough accumulation to make this the snowiest November in Anchorage since recordkeeping began in 1953. The National ...
Anchorage's leading newspaper is the Anchorage Daily News, [134] a citywide daily newspaper. Other newspapers include the Alaska Star, [135] serving primarily Chugiak and Eagle River, the Anchorage Press, [136] a free weekly covering mainly cultural topics, and The Northern Light, [137] the student newspaper of the University of Alaska Anchorage.