Small Craft Advisory 585, NWS Anchorage, AK

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
500 AM ADT TUE JUL 26 2005

.DISCUSSION...
SLOW MOVING UPPER LEVEL TROUGH CENTERED JUST SOUTHWEST OF KODIAK
ISLAND THIS MORNING WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY TODAY AND FINALLY
BEGIN TO KICK EASTWARD TONIGHT. ANOTHER PRECIPITATION BAND FROM THIS
LOW WILL MOVE INTO SOUTHERN ALASKA TODAY. AS WITH PREVIOUS BANDS OVER
THE LAST FEW DAYS...IT WILL DIE OUT AS IT MOVES NORTH. SOME
THUNDERSTORMS POSSIBLE AGAIN TODAY ALONG THE MCGRATH MOUNTAINS AND
NORTH OF BETHEL AS THE THERMAL RIDGE REMAINS DRAPED OVER THE AREA.

THE MAIN STORM TRACK RUNS FROM NORTHEAST SIBERIA ACROSS KAMCHATKA AND
THE ALEUTIANS INTO THE NORTHERN GULF AND THEN INTO THE SOUTHEAST
ALASKA/BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST. THE STRONG UPPER LEVEL HIGH OVER THE
ARCTIC OCEAN AND THE ALASKAN ARCTIC COAST WILL REMAIN BASICALLY IN
PLACE INTO AT LEAST EARLY NEXT WEEK AND WILL HELP KEEP THE MAIN STORM
TRACK SOUTH OF MAINLAND ALASKA. THE LOW MENTIONED ABOVE WILL SLOWLY
DRIFT ACROSS THE GULF THROUGH FRIDAY WITH PRECIPITATION CHANCES
DWINDLING BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THE WEEKEND LOOKS DRY FOR MOST OF
MAINLAND ALASKA AND THEN CHANCES OF PRECIPITATION WILL CREEP BACK IN
EARLY NEXT WEEK AS THE NEXT LOW SETTLES IN NEAR COLD BAY...ALTHOUGH
THIS LOW LOOKS WEAKER THAN OUR CURRENT ONE.

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

LUDWIG JUL 05