Small Craft Advisory 706, NWS Anchorage, AK

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA
500 AM ADT SUN SEP 4 2005

.DISCUSSION...
THE LOW IN BRISTOL BAY HAS MOVED TO NEAR KODIAK ISLAND AS A 998 MB
THIS MORNING WILL CONTINUE MOVE JUST EAST OF KODIAK ISLAND BEFORE
STALLING AND WEAKEN INTO A TROUGH BY THIS EVENING.  THE FRONT IS
MOVING OVER  LOWER COOK INLET AND SOUTHCENTRAL THIS MORNING AND WILL
SWING  EASTERN GULF THIS AFTERNOON THEN WEAKEN ALONG THE CENTRAL AND
EASTERN GULF COAST MONDAY.

RAIN WILL CONTINUE WITH THIS SYSTEM ALONG THE GULF COAST AND MOST OF
THE INTERIOR SOUTHCENTRAL TODAY AND INTO MONDAY. SOUTHEAST WINDS NEAR
ANCHORAGE AND KENAI HAVE CUT OFF AND RAIN WILL CONTINUE IN THESE
AREAS THROUGH TONIGHT ALSO.

A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE ALONG THE CENTRAL GULF COAST WILL PERSIST
THROUGH TODAY THEN BEGIN TO WEAKEN MONDAY.

A 991 MB LOW OVER THE NORTHWESTERN BERING SEA WILL MOVE ACROSS THE
BERING SEA TO NEAR NUNIVAK ISLAND BY MONDAY AFTERNOON. THE WEATHER
FRONT OVER THE WESTERN ALEUTIANS WILL MOVE THROUGH THE CENTRAL
ALEUTIANS SUNDAY AND THROUGH THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS AND THE PRIBILOFS
TONIGHT AND WILL LIE ALONG THE KUSKOKWIM DELTA COAST AND THE ALASKA
PENINSULA MONDAY.

.AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...NONE.
MARINE...GALES 120..130..172..175..176..185.

SEP 05