A N-S oriented stationary front set up over the central panhandle Wednesday January 31st with a tight temperature gradient between cold air to the west and very warm air over the southern inner channels. Snow fell along the front in a narrow band centered over Juneau, Angoon, and Kuiu Island.
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The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
A N-S oriented stationary front set up over the central panhandle Wednesday January 31st with a tight temperature gradient between cold air to the west and very warm air over the southern inner channels. Snow fell along the front in a narrow band centered over Juneau, Angoon, and Kuiu Island. The front slowly shifted eastward through the following day, February 1st, with rain transitioning to snow over Petersburg and northern Prince of Wales Island.
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 Jan 31, 5:59 AM AKST, 6 hours 32 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The Angoon Community Association (tribe) measured 13 inches of snow that fell from mid-day on the 31st to just before lunchtime on February 1st. An estimated 6 inches fell by midnight on the 31st.
Snow began to fall in Juneau in the afternoon of January 31st and reaching 7.2 inches measured at the forecast office and 6.8 inches measured at the airport by midnight. Snow continued to fall until 1pm on the 1st with another 7.7 inches measured for the day at the NWS office and 7 inches at the Juneau airport. This gave a total of around 14 inches of snow in less than 24hrs for this event that spanned January and February.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 2024
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: 1160794, 1160793.