A cold snap is settling over Southeast Alaska starting this weekend into early next week. Here’s what the National Weather Service, a local plumber and the city’s warming shelter operator have to say.
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Alaska wildfire researchers grapple with changing climate’s effects on predictability
Last spring, a winter’s worth of snow melted off ahead of schedule in Southwest Alaska, leading to earlier-than-usual fires in a place that’s not so fire-prone to begin with.
Anchorage schools close again as 3rd major storm hits
The latest storm’s tally joins totals from winter storms on Dec. 6 and Sunday, which saw Anchorage break a liquid precipitation record set in 1989.
Anchorage schools remain closed as another winter storm hits
Schools have not reopened since last week’s storm closed them on Wednesday.
Anchorage still shoveling out from its snowiest December day since the 1950s
While the airport had more than 10 inches of snow, other parts of town got more than twice that.
Anchorage digs out of more than a foot of wet, heavy snow
A state Department of Transportation spokesman said it was Anchorage’s heaviest snowfall in more than 20 years.