The arctic front had become stationary over northern southeast Alaska on Monday, 12/24 while a storm force low center had moved into the western Gulf that afternoon. A series of fronts slowly moved onshore from this low causing warm, moist air to move over the arctic front on Tuesday, 12/25.
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The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
The arctic front had become stationary over northern southeast Alaska on Monday, 12/24 while a storm force low center had moved into the western Gulf that afternoon. A series of fronts slowly moved onshore from this low causing warm, moist air to move over the arctic front on Tuesday, 12/25.
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 Juneau, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 24, 6:00 AM AKST, 15 hours earlier.
SOUTHEAST ALASKA FORECAST DISCUSSION 1100 AM AST MON DEC 24 2007 .SYNOPSIS... .SHORT RANGE...SATELLITE IMAGERY THIS MORNING IS REVEALING A FAIRLY DEEP LOW JUST SOUTH OF KODIAK ISLAND. ASSOCIATED OCCLUDED FRONT IS NOW OVER THE CENTRAL GULF AND FRONTAL CLOUD SHIELD IS JUST NOW COMING ASHORE ALONG THE OUTER COAST OF THE PANHANDLE. OBSERVED WINDS IN ADVANCE OF THE FRONT ARE SOUTHEAST AT 45 KTS SUSTAINED. THERE ARE AT LEAST THREE EASILY IDENTIFIABLE SHORT WAVE FEATURES ROTATING AROUND THE PARENT LOW AND NAM HAS DONE A FINE JOB OF CAPTURING THESE DETAILS. A SURFACE RIDGE HAS PUSHED THE LOW FROM LAST NIGHT WELL INTO BRITISH COLUMBIA AND IS ITSELF NOW BEING PUSHED EAST AS THE ADVANCING FRONT BEGINS TO RIDE OVER THE TOP. THERE IS A LITTLE PRECIPITATION GOING ON IN VARIOUS PLACES BUT THIS IS ALL CLEARLY LEFTOVER SHOWER ACTIVITY FROM THE LOW THAT CROSSED THE PANHANDLE LAST NIGHT. MAINS ISSUES AFFECTING THE SHORT RANGE FORECAST PERIOD DEAL WITH THE ONSET AND DURATION OF ADVISORY LEVEL WINDS ALONG THE OUTER COAST AND SNOWFALL AMOUNTS. PREVIOUS THINKING HAS WIND ADVISORIES BEGINNING AROUND 6 PM TONIGHT AND THAT TIMING SEEMS TO BE HOLDING UP WELL WITH THE CURRENT MODEL RUN SO AM NOT ANTICIPATING MAJOR CHANGES TO THE CURRENT WIND ADVISORIES. MORE COMPLICATED IS THE TOTAL EXPECTED SNOWFALL AND JUST WHERE THE RAIN-SNOW LINE WILL BE. HAVE NOT YET DECIDED ON ADVISORY LEVEL OR HEAVY SNOW FOR ZONE 19. AM ALSO CONSIDERING ADVISORY FOR ZONES 17 AND 25. .LONG RANGE... MODELS STILL INDICATE THAT A LONGWAVE RIDGE IN THE WESTERN PACIFIC WILL BUILD AND BEGIN TO PUSH THE COLD UPPER LOW IN THE BERING SEA EASTWARD BY THE END OF THE WEEK. THE LOW EVENTUALLY SETTLES OVER THE NORTH GULF OF ALASKA BY NEXT MON AS THE RIDGE MOVES EAST AND EXTENDS FROM THE PACIFIC INTO THE BERING. DURING THIS TRANSITION A SERIES OF TROUGHS MOVE INTO THE GULF FROM THE SOUTHWEST AND WEAKEN AS THEY GET STRETCHED BY THE STRONG JET TO THE SOUTH. THE GFS APPEARS TO BE TOO DEEP WITH THE LOW MOVING INTO THE NORTH CENTRAL GULF OF AK AT THE END OF THE WEEK. THERE IS A LARGE SPREAD IN THE ENSEMBLES WITH THIS SYSTEM AND THE OPERATIONAL GFS IS ONE OF THE DEEPER SOLUTIONS. WITH THE JET FURTHER SOUTH A BLEND GFS/ECMWF IS PREFERRED TO HELP TONE DOWN THE LOW IN THE GULF A BIT AND PUT MORE EMPHASIS ON WAVE DEVELOPMENTS TO THE SOUTH. TEMPERATURES WILL BEGIN TO COOL DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK FROM COLD AIR INFILTRATING THE GULF BEHIND THE CURRENT LOW. AS FRONTAL WAVES DEVELOP AND MOVE SOUTH OF THE PANHANDLE LOW LEVEL WINDS WILL BE PRIMARY OFFSHORE NORTHEASTERLY DRYING OUT NORTHERN SE AK AND THE NE GULF COAST THU-FRI. PRECIPITATION OVER THE WEEKEND WILL BE MAINLY SNOW. .AJK...WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES PUBLIC...WIND ADVISORY AKZ017-022>023-027>028 WSW AKZ019 MARINE...SCA PKZ011-031-034 GALE PKZ021>022-033-035>036-041>043-051 STORM PKZ052
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Haines customs observed 9.0 inches of new snowfall for 24 hours ending 0800 on 12/25. Analyses showed that most, if not all of the snow fell between 0300 and 0800 on Tuesday, 12/25.
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