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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE JUNEAU AK
4 PM AST SAT NOV 8 2003



DOMINANT FEATURES ON THE ALASKA WEATHER MAP THIS AFTERNOON WERE
THE LOW PRESSURE SOUTHWEST OF NUNIVAK ISLAND IN THE BERING
SEA...AN ASSOCIATED FRONTAL SYSTEM THAT TRAILED ACROSS BRISTOL
BAY FROM THE LOW TO THE ALASKA PENINSULA AND THE WESTERN
GULF...AND A FRONTAL SYSTEM EXITING THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST. 
EXTENSIVE CLOUDINESS BLANKETED ALL BUT SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA
AND THE EASTERN GULF COAST WHERE MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES HELD THROUGH
MUCH OF THE DAY.

PRECIPITATION TODAY FELL AS SNOW FROM SOUTHWEST TO WESTERN ALASKA
AND FROM THE INTERIOR TO THE NORTH SLOPE. SNOW ALSO FELL IN THE
PANHANDLE AROUND HYDER. ACCUMULATION REPORTS WERE GENERALLY LESS
THAN ONE INCH. RAIN FELL HEAVILY AT TIMES ACROSS THE PANHANDLE
WITH A FEW REPORTS OF THUNDER NEAR PORT ALEXANDER. RAINFALL
AMOUNTS RANGED FROM LESS THAN A TENTH OF AN INCH IN THE
SKAGWAY/HAINES AREA TO OVER AN INCH IN THE JUNEAU AREA. 

A HIGH WIND WARNING OVER THE WESTERN ARCTIC COAST AND WIND
ADVISORY ALONG THE WEST COAST ENDED THIS MORNING BUT A HEAVY SURF
ADVISORY REMAINED IN PLACE FOR THE CHUKCHI SEA COAST AROUND
SHISHMAREF AND EXPIRED ALONG THE YUKON DELTA COASTAL AREA. MAJOR
COASTAL FLOODING WAS REPORTED IN EASTERN NORTON SOUND FROM
SHAKTOOLIK TO STEBBINS. WIND GUSTS TO 45 MPH WERE COMMON FROM
CAPE LISBURNE TO SHISHMAREF AND SIMILAR GUSTS FROM NORTON SOUND
TO THE BRISTOL BAY COAST HAD SUBSIDED THIS AFTERNOON. WINDS WERE
STILL VERY STRONG AT TIMES ALONG THE OUTSIDE COASTAL AREAS OF THE
PANHANDLE INTO THE AFTERNOON WITH GUSTS OVER 50 MPH AT CAPE
SPENCER WHILE GUSTS TO 45 MPH BLASTED THE COAST FROM SITKA TO
CAPE DECISION. EARLY MORNING GUSTS OF 35 TO 40 MPH ROCKED THE
CAPITAL CITY EARLY AS THE COLD FRONT SWEPT THROUGH.

TEMPERATURES AROUND THE STATE AS OF 2 PM RANGED FROM ZERO ALONG
THE ARCTIC COAST TO THE MID 40S FROM THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS ACROSS
THE GULF COAST TO THE KENAI PENINSULA TO THE PANHANDLE. SINGLE
DIGITS WERE CONFINED NORTH OF THE BROOKS RANGE WITH TEENS ALONG
THE CHUKCHI SEA COAST. LOW TO MID 20S WERE OBSERVED AROUND THE
SEWARD PENINSULA AND THROUGH THE EASTERN INTERIOR AND INTO THE
MATANUSKA VALLEY AND THE COPPER RIVER BASIN. 30S COVERED
SOUTHWEST ALASKA AND THE INTERIOR WITH 40S GENERALLY SOUTH OF THE
ALASKA RANGE.THE LOW TEMPERATURE REPORT FOR THE DAY CAME FROM
ANAKTUVUK PASS AND BARTER ISLAND...BOTH WITH REPORTS OF ZERO
DEGREES. THE HOT SPOT IN THE STATE WAS IN THE PANHANDLE WHERE
CAPE DECISION AND SITKA BOTH REACHED A BALMY 50 DEGREES.

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PJR