Alaska, 2025Heavy Snow in Alaska, November 21 to 22, 2025
November 21 to 22, 2025 · NWS AJK · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Southwest onshore flow pushed showers into the panhandle through Friday the 21st. A weak shortwave trough rotated into the eastern gulf and brought a more organized band of precipitation to the panhandle Friday evening with shower development then continuing behind the shortwave into Saturday.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
Open the live radar over this ground
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Southwest onshore flow pushed showers into the panhandle through Friday the 21st. A weak shortwave trough rotated into the eastern gulf and brought a more organized band of precipitation to the panhandle Friday evening with shower development then continuing behind the shortwave into Saturday. This resulted in approximately a 12 hour period of snowfall along the Klondike Highway.
Heavy Snow, Municipality of Skagway
- When
- November 21, 11:00 PM AKST to November 22, 11:00 AM AKST
- Where
- Municipality of Skagway forecast zone
- Reported by
- Department of Highways
- Coordinates
- 59.469, -135.306 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
The morning 511 report for the Klondike Highway on the 22nd noted at least 5 inches of snow had fallen between milepost 8 to 12, at least 7 inches of snow had fallen between milepost 12 to the border, and up to 10 inches had fallen to milepost 15. The Moore Creek SNOTEL at 2250ft elevation measured snowfall between 11pm on the 21st and 11am on the 22nd with around 6 inches of accumulation during that time.
- 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.
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: 1302236.