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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
400 AM AKDT THU JUL 24 2008
LOOKING AT THE MORNING WEATHER MAP...A WEATHER DISTURBANCE ALONG THE
NORTHEAST GULF COAST WAS CONTINUING TO PLAGUE THE SOUTH CENTRAL
REGION WITH MODERATE RAINFALL AND CLOUD COVER. REPORTS FROM COASTAL
AREAS NEAR THE KENAI PENINSULA AND PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND...HAD
RAINFALL AMOUNTS UP NEAR AN INCH THROUGH EARLY THIS MORNING. GUSTY
WINDS WOULD ACCOMPANY THE RAIN AT PORTAGE...WITH REPORTS OF GUSTS
TO NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR AT TIMES. RAIN WAS ALSO FOUND TO THE
SOUTH ALONG THE GULF COAST AT YAKUTAT AND CORDOVA.
FOR THE INTERIOR REGION...SKIES WERE MAINLY BROKEN TO OVERCAST...WITH
THE ONLY REPORT OF RAIN COMING IN FROM THE NORTHERN SUSITNA VALLEY AT
CANTWELL. TO THE NORTH ALONG THE ARCTIC AND BEAUFORT SEA
COASTS...OVERCAST CONDITIONS WOULD DOMINATE...WITH REPORTS OF
FREEZING FOG AT POINT BARROW. FOR THE WESTERN COASTS...FAIR SKIES
WOULD DOMINATE...WHILE AREAS OF RAIN AND FOG WERE BEING REPORTED TO
THE SOUTH AT KING SALMON AND ILLIAMNA. A QUIET MORNING WOULD BE HAD
ACROSS THE ALASKA PENINSULA...WITH LOW CLOUDS FOUND ALONG THE BERING
SEA COAST NEAR PORT HEIDEN AND COLD BAY...AND GENERALLY FAIR SKIES
FOUND TO THE SOUTH NEAR SAND POINT.
A COOL MORNING WAS FOUND ACROSS THE STATE...WITH TEMPERATURES RANGING
FROM THE 30S ALONG THE NORTHERN COASTS AND SLOPES...TO MID 40S TO
LOWER 50 ACROSS COASTAL LOCATIONS. THE INTERIOR REGION WOULD SEE
READINGS MAINLY IN THE MID 40S...WITH THE EXCEPTION TO DENALI
PARK...WHERE THE TEMPERATURE DROPPED TO 37 DEGREES. THE STATE COLD
SPOT FOUND SO FAR THIS MORNING...CAME IN FROM BARROW...WITH A REPORT
OF A CHILLY 31 DEGREES AT THE TIME OF THIS REPORT.
RW JUL 08
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