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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
4 AM AST TUESDAY JANUARY 27 2004

LOW PRESSURE...ANCHORED WEST OF BRISTOL BAY WITH ANOTHER CENTER
SOUTH OF KODIAK ISLAND...BEGAN UNDERCUTTING STILL ROBUST HIGH
PRESSURE OVER THE ALASKA MAINLAND TUESDAY MORNING.

THE MAINLAND REMAINED LARGELY UNAFFECTED BY CLOUDS EARLY TUESDAY.
SOME PATCHY ICE FOG AND THIN UP SLOPE FLOW-INDUCED CLOUDINESS WAS
REPORTED IN AREAS OF INTERIOR ALASKA. A HIGH CIRRUS SHIELD...
ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOWS...LOOMED OVER THE SOUTHWEST THIS MORNING.
SNOW FELL OUT OF LOWER CLOUDINESS ASSOCIATED WITH THE LOW PRESSURE
AT KODIAK...KING SALMON AND AS FAR NORTH AS WHITTIER AFTER MIDNIGHT.

WIND CONTINUED TO BE STRONG ALONG THE BROAD INTERFACE BETWEEN HIGH
AND LOW PRESSURE OVER THE STATE. IN THE NORTH...EASTERLY WIND
GUSTED OVER 30 MPH AT GAMBELL...SHISHMAREF AND TIN CITY. STRONGER
WIND...GUSTING OVER 50 MPH BATTERED UNALAKLEET...GOLOVIN AND KOYUK.
EAST WIND OVER THE INTERIOR GUSTED BETWEEN 20 AND 30 MPH AT BETTLES
AND KALTAG. OUT WEST...WIND BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH SWEPT ANVIK...
DILLINGHAM...TOGIAK AND EMMONAK EARLY TUESDAY. EASTERLY WIND FROM
35 TO 45 MPH WAS REPORTED NEAR HOOPER BAY...KING SALMON...MEKORYUK
AND SAINT MARYS. EAST WIND NEAR 50 MPH AND GUSTING TO 70 MPH SHOOK
CAPE ROMANZOF DURING THE SAME PERIOD. ANOTHER KIND OF SHAKING WAS
REPORTED BY RESIDENTS OF ALASKA PENINSULA COMMUNITIES JUST BEFORE
1 AM TUESDAY AS A MAGNITUDE 5.4 EARTHQUAKE STRUCK 75 MILES
NORTHEAST OF CHIGNIK. EAST WIND OVER THE SOUTHCENTRAL GUSTED FROM
25 TO 35 MPH AT WHITTIER AND WASILLA. WIND GUSTS FROM 40 TO 50 MPH
WHIPPED HOMER AND KODIAK. ALONG THE SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE...WIND GUSTS
FROM 20 TO 30 MPH OCCURRED NEAR METLAKATLA AND SITKA. WIND ELSEWHERE
IN ALASKA WAS GENERALLY UNDER 20 MPH.

TEMPERATURES ACROSS NORTHERN ALASKA RANGED FROM 10 ABOVE...AT
POINT HOPE...TO NEAR 20 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AT ANAKTUVUK...BARROW
AND BARTER ISLAND EARLY TUESDAY. COLD TEMPERATURES HAD EASED
SOMEWHAT BY THIS MORNING WITH THE COLDEST TEMPERATURES...AT ARCTIC
VILLAGE AND FAIRBANKS...RANGING IN THE MINUS 20S. MOST WESTERN
COMMUNITIES REPORTED TEMPERATURES FROM THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE
ZERO INTO THE TEENS ABOVE. DUTCH HARBOR AND SAND POINT TIED FOR
THE WARMEST READINGS...BOTH AT 36 DEGREES AT 1 AM TUESDAY.
THE TEMPERATURE SPREAD ACROSS THE SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST LOOKED
MORE LIKE WHAT ONE WOULD EXPECTED IN THE WEST OR EVEN THE NORTH.
READINGS AS LOW AS 41 DEGREES BELOW AND ZERO WERE TAKEN AFTER
MIDNIGHT AT GLENNALLEN AND BIRCHWOOD RESPECTIVELY. THE WARMEST
SPOT...KODIAK...ONLY MANAGED 32 DEGREES. MOST READINGS ACROSS
THE SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST WERE CHILLY...IN THE TEENS ABOVE
ZERO. THE LOWEST WIND CHILL EQUIVALENT TEMPERATURE THIS MORNING
OCCURRED IN THE INTERIOR AT ARCTIC VILLAGE...42 DEGREES BELOW ZERO.

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RRW JAN 04
 

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