ABAK01 PANC 200001
ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JUNEAU AK
4 PM ADT SUN OCT 19 2003

AS OF 3 PM A LOW HAD MOVED ONSHORE NEAR PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND. ITS
WEAK ASSOCIATED WEATHER FRONTS DRAPED ACROSS THE COPPER RIVER BASIN
AND INTO THE NORTHERN GULF. A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE CONTINUED TO
MOVE ACROSS THE PANHANDLE. 3 PM SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWS MOSTLY CLOUDY
SKIES ACROSS MOST OF THE STATE WITH SOME CLOUDY PERIODS. A FEW AREAS
OVER THE YUKON FLATS AND MOST OF THE WESTERN COASTAL AREAS HAD PARTLY
CLOUDY SKIES.

COLD AIR CONTINUED TO SPILL OVER THE WESTERN HALF OF THE STATE ALONG
WITH THE AREA NORTH OF THE ALASKA RANGE. THIS COLD AIR CAUSED MANY
COASTAL AREAS AS FAR SOUTH AS COLD BAY TO REPORT SNOW. SNOW FELL ON
THE NORTH SLOPE...INTERIOR...PARTS OF THE KENAI PENINSULA AND DOWN
ALONG THE ALASKA PENINSULA. A SNOW ADVISORY FOR HOMER BLUFF WAS
CANCELLED BY 5 AM THIS MORNING. TEMPERATURES WERE WARMER FOR THE
EASTERN SIDE OF SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA CAUSING RAIN TO FALL. FOR THE
PANHANDLE RAINSHOWERS WERE PRESENT. YAKUTAT GETS THE BRAGGING RIGHTS
FOR THE WETTEST SPOT IN ALASKA WITH A COLLECTION OF OVER AN INCH
/1.04/ SO FAR TODAY. MOST OF THE PANHANDLE GENERALLY HAD RAINFALL
AMOUNTS BETWEEN 2 AND 4 TENTHS OF AN INCH. FOR THE REST OF THE STATE
PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS WERE GENERALLY LESS THAN A TENTH ON AN INCH.
 
A WIND ADVISORY WAS IN EFFECT FOR THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS WHERE DUTCH
HARBOR HAS HAD REPORTS OF A PEAK WINDS TO 46 MPH. OTHER AREAS HAD
REPORTS WITH GUSTS FROM 20 TO 40 MPH. WIND NORTH OF THE BROOKS RANGE
WERE 15 MPH OF LESS. AREAS OF THE BROOKS RANGE AND THE SEWARD
PENINSULA HAD GUSTS TO 30 MPH. THE INTERIOR HAD WINDS GENERALLY LESS
THAN 10 MPH. SOUTHCENTRAL RANGED FROM CALM TO GUSTY WINDS NEAR 25 MPH
AND THIS HAPPENED BETWEEN NEIGHBORS WITH HOMER REPORTING CALM AND
SELDOVIA REPORTING GUSTS TO 22 MPH AT 3 PM. SOUTHEAST ALASKAS WINDS
WERE MAINLY UNDER 15 MPH WITH A FEW GUSTY REPORTS NEAR 20 MPH AT
KETCHIKAN AND SKAGWAY.

TEMPERATURES AT 3 PM ON THE NORTH SLOPE RANGED FROM 12 DEGREES AT
ANAKTUVUK TO THE MID 20S AT BARTER ISLAND. FOR THE WESTERN SIDE OF
THE STATE DOWN TO THE BRISTOL BAY COAST HAD TEMPERATURES RANGING FROM
THE UPPER TEENS TO NEAR 30. FOR THE REST OF THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE
STATE AND THE INTERIOR RANGED IN THE 20S AND 30S WITH A FEW LOWER
40S. SOUTHCENTRAL HAD TEMPERATURES IN THE 30S AND 40S. SOUTHEAST
ALASKA HAD TEMPERATURES IN THE 40S AND 50S. THE HOT SPOT WAS AT WSO
ANNETTE AT 1 PM WHEN THEIR TEMPERATURE TOPPED OUT AT 55 DEGREES. THE
LOW WAS AT NUIQSUT WITH A DIP DOWN TO 7 DEGREES.

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