A band of snow showers tracked over the southern panhandle early Friday morning with quickly accumulating snow. The snow showers fell in two bands, one across the southern panhandle and another across Sitka to Juneau on Friday.
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The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.
A band of snow showers tracked over the southern panhandle early Friday morning with quickly accumulating snow. The snow showers fell in two bands, one across the southern panhandle and another across Sitka to Juneau on Friday. The northern band very slowly track northward to Yakutat late Friday night into early Saturday morning causing an advisory for Yakutat to be upgraded to a warning.
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 2, 2:53 PM AKST, 11 hours 7 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Light snow quickly became moderate to heavy with several inches stacking up between 6 to 9am. NWS Annette Island measured 6.7 inches had fallen at the Ferry Terminal by 848am on the 3rd. Amounts were lower in town.
Light snow fell overnight, but quickly became moderate to heavy with several inches stacking up between 6 to 9am. Greatest amounts were reported with social media during the 8am hour, including 6 to 8 inches on the south side of Ketchikan. The band of snow showers shifted north of the area by noon.
Snow showers fell over Yakutat the evening of the 3rd through the early morning with reports ranging from 5 to 6.4 inches across town. Snow began again in the late morning but accumulation rates were lower with only an additional 1 to 2.4 inches falling by the following morning.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Alaska in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in Alaska, January 2025
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: 1244975, 1244974, 1244976.