Record-Breaking Snow & Cold In Alaska
January 9th, 2012 at 1:13 am by Chad Evans under Chad's WLFI Weather Blog
It has been one rough, snowy, cold winter in Alaska, even by their standards. One of the coldest Novembers on record occurred at Fairbanks with temperatures down to -41 mid-month (up to 40 degrees below normal). In December readings in the latter part of the month averaged 25 degrees below normal with temperatures as low as -50 around Fairbanks. Recently, temperatures 25 degrees below normal have occurred.
Near Anchorage, the National Guard is trying to get in to help with 18 feet of record snow that has fallen in the past 1-2 weeks.
This where the extreme part of winter is located in what has been a stormy, rough, rough winter in Alaska. A small chunk of cold will break off from this & bring us cold weather late in the week. However, the strong-than-normal upper winds near the North Pole of the Polar Vortex will tend to prevent a full dis-lodging of the cold.
A major railway in Austria has been shut down by heavy snowfall of up to 4′ as a parade of storms continue to hammer Europe. So, parts of Europe & certainly Alaska, are having potent winters.
As for us, this continues to be the warmest winter since 2007 with the least amount of snow since 2007. It still does not rank in the top 15 warmest or least snowy, however. We are not close to other warm & even snowless years. Only 0.3″ of snow had fallen for the winter by January 8 in 1966 (ended up with 8.8″ with the winter, however, in that El Nino winter). No snow fell in January 1944.
Near Anchorage, the National Guard is trying to get in to help with 18 feet of record snow that has fallen in the past 1-2 weeks.
This where the extreme part of winter is located in what has been a stormy, rough, rough winter in Alaska. A small chunk of cold will break off from this & bring us cold weather late in the week. However, the strong-than-normal upper winds near the North Pole of the Polar Vortex will tend to prevent a full dis-lodging of the cold.
A major railway in Austria has been shut down by heavy snowfall of up to 4′ as a parade of storms continue to hammer Europe. So, parts of Europe & certainly Alaska, are having potent winters.
As for us, this continues to be the warmest winter since 2007 with the least amount of snow since 2007. It still does not rank in the top 15 warmest or least snowy, however. We are not close to other warm & even snowless years. Only 0.3″ of snow had fallen for the winter by January 8 in 1966 (ended up with 8.8″ with the winter, however, in that El Nino winter). No snow fell in January 1944.
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