High Wind in Alaska, April 14, 2003

SOUTH/SOUTHWEST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION
900 PM ADT SUN APR 13 2003

ANALYSIS...MODELS LOOK SIMILAR BUT I STILL PREFER THE AVIATION
MODEL.

FORECASTS...THE UPPER TROUGH OVER THE KUSKOKWIM VALLEY AND KODIAK
ISLAND WILL MOVE INTO THE EASTERN INTERIOR MONDAY AND WILL MOVE
ACROSS THE CANADIAN BORDER MONDAY NIGHT. A WEAK UPPER RIDGE WILL
BUILD INTO WESTERN ALASKA MONDAY AND WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN AND
NORTHERN ALASKA LATE MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY.

AT THE SURFACE...A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD INTO SOUTH
CENTRAL ALASKA MONDAY AND WILL LIE ALONG THE CANADIAN BORDER BY
LATE MONDAY NIGHT.

WIDELY SCATTERED SHOWERS WILL MOVE THROUGH KENAI PENINSULA AND
THE SUSITNA VALLEY TONIGHT AND INTO THE CENTRAL GULF COAST AND
THE COPPER RIVER BASIN MONDAY. THE SKIES WILL BECOME PARTLY
CLOUDY OVER SOUTH CENTRAL ALASKA MONDAY.

A 988 MB LOW JUST SOUTHWEST OF ATTU WILL MOVE INTO THE CENTRAL
BERING SEA AND DEEPEN TO 980 MB MONDAY AFTERNOON AND WILL MOVE TO
NEAR ST. LAWRENCE ISLAND TUESDAY. THE FRONT WILL MOVE INTO THE
WESTERN ALEUTIANS TONIGHT, WILL MOVE INTO THE PRIBILOFS AND
EASTERN ALEUTIANS MONDAY AFTERNOON AND INTO THE KUSKOKWIM DELTA
AND BRISTOL BAY MONDAY NIGHT. THE FRONT WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN AS
IT MOVES INTO THE WESTERN INTERIOR AND KODIAK ISLAND TUESDAY.

RAIN, SNOW AND GUSTY SOUTH TO SOUTHEAST WINDS WILL MOVE INTO THE
KUSKOKWIM DELTA AND BRISTOL BAY MONDAY AND WILL DIMINISH LATE
MONDAY NIGHT. SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE SOUTHWEST INTERIOR LATE
MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT AND WILL CHANGE TO SHOWER TUESDAY. RAIN
AND SNOW WILL MOVE INTO THE SUSITNA VALLEY AND KENAI PENINSULA
TUESDAY.

.AFC...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY
PUBLIC...NONE.
MARINE...GALE 6A..12AB.
         STORM 13.
FIRE WEATHER...NONE.

NM APR 03