Small Craft Advisory 1036, NWS Anchorage, AK

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
300 PM AST SAT DEC 10 2005

.DISCUSSION...TODAY IS NOT AS ACTIVE A WEATHER DAY AS THE LAST FEW
HAVE BEEN. GENERALLY WARM TEMPERATURES IN THE LOWER TO MID 30S RESIDE
IN MOST MAINLAND AREAS EARLY THIS AFTERNOON. THE EXCEPTION IS IN THE
KUSKOKWIM DELTA WHERE THE ARCTIC FRONT HAS MOVED THROUGH BETHEL AND
DROPPED THEIR TEMPERATURES INTO THE LOWER TEENS. LOOK FOR THIS COLD
AIRMASS TO MOVE EASTWARD OVER THE NEXT DAY OR TWO AND REPLACE THE
WARM TEMPERATURES WITH MORE SEASONAL ONES.

A WEAK SURFACE LOW IS VISIBLE ON THE SATELLITE IMAGE NEAR KODIAK
ISLAND. THIS LOW WILL MOVE SLOWLY NORTHEASTWARD AND INTO PRINCE
WILLIAM SOUND BY SUNDAY NIGHT. AREAS ALONG THE ALEUTIAN ISLANDS AND
ALASKA PENINSULA WILL SEE SNOW SHOWERS IN THE PERSISTENT NORTHWEST
FLOW. BRISTOL BAY WILL SEE SOME SNOWFALL OVERNIGHT AS THE COLD AIR
MOVES INTO THE AREA AND MOISTURE FROM THE LOW NEAR KODIAK OVERRUNS
IT. KODIAK WILL SEE SOME RAIN THIS EVENING THAT WILL TURN TO SNOW
AFTER MIDNIGHT AS THE COLD PUSH REACHES THEM FROM THE WEST AND
SOUTHWEST.

SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA SHOULD SEE SNOWFALL MOVING INTO SOME AREAS
OVERNIGHT WITH MOST AREAS RECEIVING SOME SNOW AT SOME POINT THROUGH
SUNDAY NIGHT.

.AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...NONE.
MARINE...GALE 176.
FIRE WEATHER...NONE.

DEC 05