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Following an October that was milder than normal in Alaska, it turned brutally cold in parts of The Last Frontier this week. Subzero cold is not uncommon for interior Alaska in early November, but ...
However, on Tuesday, the regions turned white, with the Mobile Regional Airport setting a new preliminary all-time snow record of 7.5 inches. The second-highest snowstorm total from the storm was ...
Nov. 7—A major winter storm is forecast to bring snow, strong winds and rain to a large swath of Southcentral Alaska from Tuesday night into Thursday. Light snow was expected to begin in the ...
Lake Helen at Mount Lassen [10] and Kalmia Lake in the Trinity Alps are estimated to receive 600-700 inches of snow per year. Tamarack in Calaveras County holds the record for the deepest snowfall on earth (884 inches (2,250 cm)). 5. Alaska: Valdez: 314.1 inches (798 cm) 95 feet (29 m)
Chicken is a tiny unincorporated village in Southeast Fairbanks Census Area, Alaska. [2] A community founded on gold mining, it is one of the few surviving gold-rush towns in Alaska. The population was 12 at the time of the 2020 census, up from 7 in 2010. However, usually year round, there are 17 inhabitants.
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 average, Anchorage receives 16 inches (410 mm) of precipitation a year, with around 75 inches (1.91 m) of snow.
Snow squalls are expected that can create whiteout conditions and quickly coat the ground in 1-2 inches of snow per hour. By dawn, our snow showers fade for the lowlands but the cold is here to stay.
Last week, in the span of two days, more than twice the much fell, with Wednesday shattering a single-day record with nine inches of snow in 24 hours. Some parts of the city saw 30 inches of snow ...