A weather front associated with a strong low in the Bering Sea brought heavy snow to portions of northwest Alaska from the 28th to 30th of November. This system also brought high winds to the area as it moved through.
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.
The episode as NWS AFG wrote it up.
A weather front associated with a strong low in the Bering Sea brought heavy snow to portions of northwest Alaska from the 28th to 30th of November. This system also brought high winds to the area as it moved through.
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 Nov 28, 6:43 AM AKST, 8 hours 17 minutes earlier.
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</html>2 heavy snow, 1 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
The event brought 8 inches of snow to the city of Shishmaref. The storm also brought 4 inches of snow to Kivalina and over 6 inches of snow to Point Hope.
The storm brought a foot of snow to the village of Noatak. The Red Dog mine reported several inches of snow fell; however, blowing snow made it difficult to measure.
A Native Corp official reported in Wainwright reported 6 inches of snow fell in the 24 hour period. Near blizzard conditions were reported at Cape Lisburne with gusts of 70 knots at times.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, November 2022
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1067710, 1067712, 1067713.