A strong, cold high pressure center was positioned over the Interior and strong low pressure was centered over the northeastern Gulf of Alaska.
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The episode as NWS AFC wrote it up.
A strong, cold high pressure center was positioned over the Interior and strong low pressure was centered over the northeastern Gulf of Alaska.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Anchorage, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 2, 12:00 AM AKST, 18 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION SOUTHCENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST ALASKA 500 AM AST SUN DEC 2 2007 .ANALYSIS AND UPPER LEVELS... PATTERN CHANGE IN PROGRESS THIS MORNING. CUT-OFF UPPER RIDGE IS DEVELOPING A POSITIVE TILT BETWEEN NORTHERN GREENLAND AND THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS. THIS RIDGE CONTINUES TO BE HEMMED IN BETWEEN CUT-OFF LOWS WEST OF KAMCHATKA AND OVER EXTREME SOUTHEAST AK. AT THE SURFACE...THE DECAYING FRONT EXTENDS FROM THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS TO EASTERN RUSSIA. RIDGING IS DEVELOPING OVER THE CENTRAL BERING WHILE ANOTHER RIDGE COVERS MAINLAND AK. A LOW IS OVER THE NORTHERN GULF. .MODEL DISCUSSION... MODELS ARE COMING INTO AGREEMENT WITH THE PATTERN CHANGE. THE UPPER RIDGE CONTINUES ITS POSITIVE TILT TREND UNTIL IT BECOMES ZONALLY ORIENTED ALONG THE ARCTIC COAST MON NIGHT. THIS ALLOWS THE SOUTHEAST AK TROUGH TO RETROGRADE WEST OVER THE NORTHERN GULF COAST MON AFTERNOON AND THEN ON INTO THE BERING ON TUE. AT THE SURFACE...THE GULF LOW MOVES WEST AND MERGES INTO A MASSIVE LOW OVER THE BERING ON TUE. THE FORECAST LEANS HEAVILY ON THE GFS FOR THE ENTIRE WEEK. .SHORT TERM FORECAST... SOUTH AND EAST OF THE AK RANGE...MASSIVE HIGH PRESSURE AND DEVELOPING LOW PRESSURE IN THE GULF WILL KEEP A STRONG PRESSURE GRADIENT ALONG THE COAST AND INTO SOUTH CENTRAL TODAY. WARNING LEVEL WINDS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE MORNING OUT OF THE COPPER RIVER DELTA...THE VALDEZ/THOMPSON PASS AREA...AND MATANUSKA VALLEY. UPPER SUPPORT WILL DISCONNECT FROM THE SURFACE GRADIENT AND WINDS WILL DIMINISH BELOW WARNING LEVELS BY MIDDAY. AS THE GULF LOW MOVES SOUTHWEST IT WILL BRING SOME SNOW TO THE KENAI AND KODIAK ISLAND TONIGHT...AND AS IT STALLS SOUTH OF THE AKPEN...LIGHTER PRECIP ON ONSHORE FLOW WILL CONTINUE FOR THE AREAS MON. A FRONT ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAME LOW WILL BRING MORE SNOW TO THESE AREAS THROUGH WED AS THE LOW WEAKENS INTO AN OPEN WAVE. FOR SW AK...DRY CONDITIONS WILL GIVE WAY TO SOME CLOUDS AND SNOW SHOWER ACTIVITY AS THE GULF LOW MOVES WEST. THESE SHOWERS BECOME MORE LOCALIZED NEAR THE ALEUTIAN RANGE AS THE LOW BEGINS TO WEAKEN TUE. IN THE WEST...AREAS OF FOG WITH THE OCCASIONAL SNOW SHOWER WILL AFFECT MUCH OF THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN BERING THROUGH MON. A FRONT IN THE EXTREME WESTERN BERING WILL MAKE LITTLE EASTWARD HEADWAY UNTIL IT DISSIPATES MON. ON TUE WEATHER FEATURES BEGIN TO MOVE WEST TO EAST AGAIN. THE NEXT PACIFIC LOW BRINGS A FRONT INTO THE BERING TUE WITH PLENTY OF WARM ADVECTION RAIN IN THE FAR WEST...AND SNOW FOLLOWED BY RAIN TOWARD BRISTOL BAY. .LONG TERM FORECAST... OUT WEST...THE MASSIVE LOW AND FRONT MOVE TO THE BERING STRAIT AND COLD SNOW SHOWERS FOLLOW THEIR PATH FOR THE REST OF THE WEEK. OVER SW AK...ONSHORE FLOW WILL BRING ABUNDANT PRECIP WED INTO THU... BEGINNING AS SNOW AND CHANGING OVER TO RAIN. IN THE EAST...ONSHORE FLOW WILL BRING SNOW TO THE NORTH GULF COAST INTO WED FOLLOWED BY BRIEF DRYING. REMNANTS OF THE BERING FRONT WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF PRECIPITATION THU AND FRI...LIMITED TO THE COAST WITH SOME SHOWERS CROSSING THE MOUNTAINS TO INLAND ZONES. .AER/ALU...WATCH/WARNING SUMMARY PUBLIC...HIGH WIND WARNING 111 131 135 MARINE...HEAVY FREEZING SPRAY...140 141 180 185 GALES 121 130 132 138 140 150 170 172 175 176 179 FIRE WEATHER...NONE DS DEC 07
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Gust to 71 kts (82 mph) recorded on Valdez HANDAR at the Port of Valdez at 0700 AST 2 Dec 07.
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