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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. 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 ...
Last year, 107.9 inches (274 centimeters) fell on Anchorage, making this only the second time the city has had back-to-back years of 100-plus inches (254-plus centimeters) of snow since the ...
Apr. 6—Anchorage is edging ever closer to a seasonal snowfall record that's now less than 5 inches away. By Friday, this winter's total snowfall at the National Weather Service offices on Sand ...
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'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.
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 ...
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 ...