Alaska, 2022

Heavy Snow in Alaska, December 6 to 9, 2022

December 6 to 9, 2022 · NWS AFG · 2 events in 2 counties and zones

A low in the Gulf of Alaska deepened and moved a front over the Southeast Interior providing areas of heavy snow to the Alaska Range and from Delta Junction to Northway.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
2

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

What happened

The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.

A low in the Gulf of Alaska deepened and moved a front over the Southeast Interior providing areas of heavy snow to the Alaska Range and from Delta Junction to Northway.

What forecasters said that day

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 Dec 5, 1:36 PM AKST, 14 hours 54 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Dec 5, 1:36 PM AKST, 14 hours 54 minutes before
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Event by event

2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Deltana and Tanana

When
December 6, 4:30 AM AKST to December 9, 4:29 AM AKST
Where
Deltana and Tanana forecast zone
Reported by
Local Official

The City of Delta Junction office estimated that 12-14 inches of snow fell in just over 24 hours.

Heavy Snow, Upr Tanana Vly Fortymile

When
December 7, 3:00 AM AKST to December 8, 8:00 AM AKST
Where
Upr Tanana Vly Fortymile forecast zone
Reported by
AWOS

Northway reported 8 inches of snow in about a 24 hour timeframe.

What these are

Heavy Snow
Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Alaska in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, December 2022

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1070341, 1070340.