A cold front moving west across the Brooks Range resulted in heavy snow and low visibility in blowing snow.
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The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.
A cold front moving west across the Brooks Range resulted in heavy snow and low visibility in blowing snow.
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 Fairbanks, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jun 14, 1:48 AM AKST, 12 minutes earlier.
Northern Alaska Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 248 AM AKDT Thu Jun 14 2018 .DISCUSSION... Aloft, at 500 mb, A 528 dam upper low just north of Barrow will be the main player over the next 24 hours for the north slope and Brooks range. A shortwave rotating around this low will provide the dynamics for heavy snow in the Brooks range through early Friday morning. This low will track across the brooks range through Friday then head northeast towards Banks Island on Saturday. Ridging will build north across the Yukon Territory over the Weekend. The models are also in good agreement about a low (the remnants of TS Maliksi) moving northward through the Pacific Ocean reaching the central Aleutians by Friday evening. This low will spin multiple shortwaves over the forecast area this weekend. Surface... A broad area of low pressure will persist over the Arctic with a 1006 mb low moving 150 nm N of Barter Island by Fri morning. A ridge of high pressure will move W across the high Arctic to the Dateline Thu night, then build SE over the Western Arctic, and the Arctic Coast, as the low moves NE into the Canadian Archipelago Sat. A ridge of high pressure will persist over the Southern Chukchi Sea, Bering Sea, and Eastern Bering Sea through Fri morning. The ridge will be pushed N as a 982 mb low moves N over Dutch Harbor by Sat morning. North Slope and Brooks Range: A shortwave will move from west to east today bringing a mixed bag of precipitation at lower elevations and heavy snow at higher elevations as it moves across. 3 to 8 inches of snow is possible in the eastern Brooks Range through early Friday morning. As the surface low moves past Barter Island late Thursday evening there could be a brief period of westerly winds gusting to 30 mph. West Coast and Western Interior: Strong pressure gradient is producing gusty northwesterly winds around Kotzebue Sound and along the southern Chuckchi Sea coast this morning. A strong low (the remnants of Tropical Storm Maliksi) will move into the central Aleutians on Friday. A front associated with this system will begin to bring precipitation into the western interior late Friday night into Saturday. Precip will persist from Galena south on Saturday. Precipitation will move further north on Sunday. Central and Eastern Interior: Today we will see scattered showers as a weak frontal boundary moves through the middle Tanana Valley. Isolated afternoon and evening thunderstorms are also expected east of Fairbanks today. Friday morning temperatures could be back down in the upper 30s but there may be enough clouds and wind to prevent a hard freeze from happening. Friday night we will see a system move in from the south. This system has the potential to bring decent precipitation to areas north and west of Fairbanks as well as the Alaska range. This system will also bring downslope winds on the north side of the Alaska Range limiting precipitation from Fairbanks southeast. As the system approaches winds will pick up in the Alaska Range with strong gap winds expected in Alaska Range passes Friday night into Sunday. Coastal Hazard Potential Days 3 and 4...None. && .FIRE WEATHER... Thursday afternoon thunderstorms are possible along a line from Eagle to Delta Junction. No thunderstorms expected on Friday. Gusty west to southwesterly winds are expected to develop across much of the Interior on Thursday. There is a high likelihood of wetting rainfall this weekend across much of the western and central Interior; however, at this point there is still uncertainty in the exact placement and timing of the heaviest precipitation. Strong gap winds are expected to develop on the north side of the Alaska Range Friday night and are expected to continue for much of the weekend. && .HYDROLOGY... Rivers and streams draining the eastern Alaska Range and far Southeastern Interior will continue to run high over the next few days due to recent rainfall. The remnants of a tropical storm will bring an influx of moisture to parts of the west coast and western and central Interior this weekend. This may bring some locally heavy rain, possibly causing rises on some small creeks or streams. At this point there is a lot of uncertainty on exact rainfall amounts and placement. We will have to watch this situation over the upcoming days. && .AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... Winter Storm Warning for AKZ206. Small Craft Advisory for PKZ215-PKZ220. && JUN 18
1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
The SNOTEL at Atigun Pass on the Dalton Highway reported an increase of snow on the ground of 7 inches in 18 hrs. It is estimated that higher amounts of snow fell east of the highway. Strong north winds gusting to 38 mph at Atigun Pass and 28 mph at Anaktuvuk Pass along with low visibility in blowing snow accompanied the snowfall.
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