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Alaska Weather Records

6 official all-time records

The official all-time extremes for Alaska, as NOAA’s State Climate Extremes Committee lists them: from 100°F at Fort Yukon to -80°F at Prospect Creek Camp.

Maximum Temperature

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
100°FJune 27, 1915Fort Yukon26413E: Value is unchanged from previous extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

Minimum Temperature

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
-80°FJanuary 23, 1971Prospect Creek Camp507778E: Value is unchanged from previous extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

Greatest 24-Hour Precipitation

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
15.05 inchesOctober 10, 1986Seward26438N: Value is changed from extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

The previously-listed state record of 15.2 inches at Angoon on October 12, 1982 was determined to be invalid by the SCEC, based largely on analysis that resulted in this Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society article.

Maximum 24-Hour Snowfall

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
78 inchesFebruary 9, 1963Mile 47 Camp505878N: Value is changed from extremes tables last updated by NCEI (formerly NCDC) between 1998 and 2006. Value exceeds all other valid values.

Maximum Snow Depth

RecordDateWhereStationStatus
192 inchesApril 11, 2008Valdez Municipal Airport509685N1
192 inchesMarch 7, 2008Valdez Municipal Airport509685N1

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Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, State Climate Extremes Committee records.