Alaska, 2026

Heavy Snow in Alaska, January 25 to 26, 2026

January 25 to 26, 2026 · NWS AJK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

A weak front moved into the panhandle from the southwest bringing warm air advection. Deep cold air in place across the north set up a period of quickly accumulating but wet, overrunning snow followed by a transition to rain.

Where it happened

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The toll

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS AJK wrote it up.

A weak front moved into the panhandle from the southwest bringing warm air advection. Deep cold air in place across the north set up a period of quickly accumulating but wet, overrunning snow followed by a transition to rain.

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 Juneau, AK wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 25, 3:42 PM AKST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 25, 3:42 PM AKST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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The radar

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, City and Borough of Juneau

When
January 25, 5:00 PM AKST to January 26, 12:00 PM AKST
Where
City and Borough of Juneau forecast zone
Reported by
Social Media
Coordinates
58.417, -134.333 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Light snow began across Juneau at around 5pm on Sunday the 25th. Snow became heavier and wetter through the night with visibility falling to 1 mile at the airport around midnight. A social media report measured 7 inches of heavy and wet snow on Douglas by 6am Monday morning. Numerous other reports from social media had measurements of 6 to 8 inches between 6 to 10am ranging from out the road, to the Valley, and down to Thane and Snettisham. Rain began to mix in at the airport around 8am, then had transitioned to all rain in the noon hour. The RWIS sensor near Cohen Drive out the road saw the same timing of snow beginning and transition to rain as the airport. Rare to see consistent measurements and timing spanning the zone.

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.

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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1316624.