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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
4 AM AST MONDAY JANUARY 27 2003.


ARCTIC HIGH PRESSURE...CENTERED OVER NORTHWESTERN CANADA...REMAINS
IN-PLACE AS A BLOCK TO LOW PRESSURE ATTEMPTING TO INVADE MAINLAND
ALASKA FROM THE SOUTHWEST. LOW PRESSURE CENTERS OCCURRED SOUTH OF
THE ALASKA PENINSULA. TROUGHS OF LOW PRESSURE STRETCHED ALONG BOTH
THE NORTH GULF AND ARCTIC COASTLINES.

COLD...DRY ARCTIC AIR KEPT MOST OF THE STATE WAS PARTLY CLOUDY TO
MOSTLY CLEAR EARLY MONDAY. CLOUDS WERE MOSTLY RELEGATED TO SOUTH-
EASTERN AND SOUTHWESTERN COASTAL AREAS. FOG...MIXED WITH SOME SNOW
...REDUCED VISIBILITY AT JUNEAU TO ONE AND ONE-QUARTER MILES THIS
MORNING. RAIN FELL AT SITKA DURING THE SAME PERIOD.

SPOTTY AREAS OF WIND WERE NOTED IN VIRTUALLY ALL REGIONS OF THE
STATE THIS MORNING. IN THE NORTH...TIN CITY REPORTED WIND GUSTS
IN EXCESS OF 45 MPH. NORTHEAST WIND GUSTED TO OVER 30 MPH AT
GAMBELL. EAST WIND AT UNALAKLEET AND KOYUK REACHED NEAR 20 MPH.
IN INTERIOR ALASKA...EAST WIND CONTINUED TO GUST AROUND 40 MPH AT
DELTA JUNCTION. BETTLES AND NENANA JOINED-IN EARLY MONDAY WITH
GUSTS BETWEEN 25 AND 30 MPH. NORTHEAST WIND HELD AT AROUND 20 MPH
OUT WEST AT BETHEL AND CAPE ROMANZOF. ALONG THE SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE
...NORTHEAST WIND GUSTED TO AROUND 30 MPH EARLY MONDAY.

NORTHERN TEMPERATURES RANGED FROM THE MINUS SINGLE DIGITS TO MINUS
TEENS THIS MORNING. THE INTERIOR WAS SPLIT...WITH HIGHER AREAS
RANGING IN THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE ZERO AND LOW LYING SPOTS DROPPING
INTO THE MINUS TEENS AND 20S. EAGLE WAS ALREADY AT 36 DEGREES BELOW
ZERO EARLY MONDAY. THE WEST SAW TEMPERATURES IN THE SINGLE DIGITS
TO LOWER TEENS ABOVE ZERO AT INLAND LOCATIONS...WHILE COASTAL AND
ISLAND SPOTS BASKED IN THE 20S AND 30S ABOVE. THE SOUTHCENTRAL HAD
WARMED TO THE 20S AND 30S AT MOST LOCATIONS BY EARLY MONDAY.
THE BIRCHWOOD AREA REMAINED ON THE COOL SIDE AT 10 DEGREES ABOVE
ZERO. GLENNALLEN SHIVERED AT 19 DEGREES BELOW ZERO. THE SOUTHEAST
PANHANDLE WAS ALSO SPLIT...WITH NORTHERN LOCALES IN THE 20S AND THE
SOUTHERN REACHES SWEATING-OUT 40 DEGREE READINGS! WIND CHILL REACHED
40 DEGREES BELOW ZERO AT TIN CITY THIS MORNING.

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RRW JAN 03
 

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