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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
400 AM AKST TUE NOV 24 2009
ON THE OVERNIGHT WEATHER MAP FOR ALASKA...WEAK LOW PRESSURE WAS OVER
BRISTOL BAY WITH TWO ATTACHED WEATHER FRONTS...ONE EXTENDED NORTH AND
EAST TO THE UPPER TANANA VALLEY AND NORTHERN YUKON TERRITORY...WHILE
THE OTHER ONE SAGGED SOUTH OVER THE ALASKA PENINSULA TO THE NORTH
PACIFIC. TWO AREAS OF WEAK LOW PRESSURE WERE FOUND NEAR THE WESTERN
ALEUTIANS...ONE WAS WEST OF THE PRIBILOF ISLANDS IN THE BERING SEA
WHILE THE OTHER WAS WEST OF THE RAT ISLANDS. WEAK HIGH PRESSURE WAS
OVER THE NORTHERN ARCTIC COAST.
SKIES WERE FAIR ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN
INTERIOR AND ACROSS THE EASTERN BROOKS RANGE AND YUKON FLATS TOWARD
THE ALCAN BORDER. SKIES WERE ALSO FAIR ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE KOBUK
VALLEY THE NORTHWEST.
THE REMAINDER OF THE STATE WAS MOSTLY CLOUDY WITH SNOW AT
WALES...TELLER AND DEERING IN THE NORTHWEST...BETHEL...COLD
BAY...DUTCH HARBOR AND ILIAMNA IN THE SOUTHWEST. SNOW ALSO FELL
ACROSS SOUTHCENTRAL REGION AT VALDEZ AND THOMPSON PASS WHILE SKAGWAY
REPORTED SNOW. RAIN CHANGED TO SNOW AT KENAI AND SEVERAL LOCATIONS
REPORTED RAIN AT
HOMER...SELDOVIA...SEWARD...WHITTIER...CORDOVA...YAKUTAT AND
KETCHIKAN.
A PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE BERING STRAIT AND OVER THE EASTERN
ALEUTIANS GENERATED NORTHERLY WINDS THAT GUSTED NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR
AT GAMBELL...POINT HOPE AND DUTCH HARBOR AND NEAR 35 MILES AN HOUR AT
SAINT PAUL. CHINOOK WINDS ACROSS THE FRONT RANGE OF THE ALASKAN
RANGE GUSTED NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR AT THE PARKS HIGHWAY SOUTH OF
HEALY. A PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE TANANA RIVER FLATS GENERATED
EAST WINDS THAT GUSTED NEAR 50 MILES AN HOUR AT FORT GREELY SOUTH OF
DELTA JUNCTION. ACROSS THE SOUTHCENTRAL REGION SEWARD REPORTED SOUTH
WINDS NEAR 40 MILES AN HOUR WHILE WHITTIER EXPERIENCED EAST WINDS
NEAR 45 MILES AN HOUR.
TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE NORTH WERE IN THE TEENS AND 20S BELOW ZERO
ACROSS THE WESTERN ARCTIC COAST TO THE CENTRAL BROOKS RANGE...THE
TEENS ABOVE ZERO ACROSS THE SEWARD PENINSULA TO THE 20S OVER SAINT
LAWRENCE ISLAND. ACROSS THE INTERIOR TEMPERATURES WERE IN THE TEENS
BELOW ZERO NEAR NORTHWAY TO THE SINGLE DIGITS IN FAIRBANKS TO THE 30S
ACROSS THE NORTHERN SLOPES OF THE ALASKAN RANGE THANKS TO THE WARMING
EFFECT OF THE CHINOOK WINDS. ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST TEMPERATURES WERE
IN THE TEENS ACROSS THE KUSKOKWIM DELTA TO THE 20S FROM BRISTOL BAY
TO THE ALASKA PENINSULA AND EVEN ACROSS THE ALEUTIAN CHAIN. ACROSS
THE SOUTHEAST ARCTIC AIR WAS STILL TRAPPED ACROSS THE COPPER RIVER
BASIN WHILE SOUTH OF THE CHUGACH RANGE COASTAL LOCATIONS FROM THE
PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND TO THE SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE TEMPERATURES WERE
IN THE 30S.
DTN NOV 09
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