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This is due to a time of day called "civil twilight," according to the Weather Channel. Civil twilight refers to the part of the day when the sun is within 6 degrees below the horizon.
Get the Alaska local weather forecast by the hour and the next 10 days.
Jul. 14—After a brief showing of sunshine this week, much of Southcentral Alaska is in for a very wet weekend, according to the National Weather Service. As of Friday afternoon, the weather ...
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, describing for example the degree to which it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. [1] On Earth, most weather phenomena occur in the lowest layer of the planet's atmosphere, the troposphere, [2] [3] just below the stratosphere.
Microsoft's Aurora system offers global 10-day weather and 5-day air pollution (CO 2, NO, NO 2, SO 2, O 3, and particulates) forecasts with claimed accuracy similar to physics-based models, but at orders-of-magnitude lower cost. Aurora was trained on more than a million hours of data from six weather/climate models. [83] [84]
The weather on any given day is very unpredictable. Some winters feature several feet of snow and cold temperatures, while the summers are typically mild but are cool compared to the contiguous US and interior Alaska. Because of Anchorage's high latitude, summer days are very long and winter daylight hours are very short.
Tropical Wind and Rainstorm Bolaven has its sights set on southern Alaska where impacts may begin as the weekend comes to a close, according to AccuWeather hurricane experts. After that, the ...
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.