Alaska Ping
Posted on 03/30/2017 5:00:11 AM PDT by rktman
ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- It was a late March surprise for residents of Alaska's largest city, the kind that snarls traffic and keeps kids at home for the day.
The National Weather Service said 8.8 inches (22.4 centimeters) of snow fell on Anchorage between 10 p.m. Tuesday and 1:30 p.m. Wednesday.
That's a record for March 29 in Anchorage, said meteorologist Rebecca Duell.
The Anchorage School District canceled classes for the day, and the deep snow slowed traffic.
One enterprising person on a bicycle with fat tires was caught by a camera from Anchorage television station KTVA. The cyclist was slowly trudging along a bike path adjacent to a long line of cars waiting to move off a highway exit ramp.
The snowfall wasn't unusual for Anchorage, or for the time of year, Duell said.
The latest snowfall on record of at least one-tenth of an inch is May 22, which occurred in 1964.
Since 1952, the average final snowfall in Anchorage occurs on April 18.
The previous high snowfall for March 29 was 3.4 inches (8.6 centimeters) set in 2001.
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1. It's Alaska
2. Didn't the new blockbuster algorism movie come out yesterday, Inconvenient BS Part Deux?(As previewed at the sundance film fest)
What a bunch of snowflakes.
Dog bites man
And
Snow in Alaska (even in July/August)
5 years ago I was in the hospital for some back surgery in June and Mrs. rktman ran through some snow flurries on the way to the see me here in Reno.. So, I ain’t skerred cause everyday, someplace in the world, it’s snowing. Actually, we’re supposed to get some smatterings of snow this morning.
1. Not counterevidence of global warming but evidence for “climate change.”
2. It’s not climate but weather.
3. If 1 and 2 don’t work, trot out the insults.
That’s, like, 1/2” per hour. I highly doubt that it ‘buried’ Anchorage.
Alaska Ping
That’s it. You’re gettin’ a scarlet “D” to wear around.
Maybe they have really short houses. I’ll have to ask one of my Alaska buddies.
I was traveling frequently to Anchorage while I was courting my now wife during 2012. The snow they received that year was off the charts... This is a nothing burger to those folks
Screw “global warming”. All weather is local.
What an asinine headline, 8 inches of snow does not “bury” anyplace north of the Mason Dixon line, certainly not Alaska. Just because it may be a “record” for a specific calendar day does not mean it’s such a big deal. Talk to me about 6 FEET of snow, maybe, but not 8 inches. Pleeeaassse....
Early ‘70’s in Albuquerque we got like 14” in mid April. It’s weather. Back then it was proof positive that the new ice age was just around the corner. Glad we could head it off.
8 inches?? Big whoop.As a former snow belter that is like a summer day.
Anchorage had 18 inches of snow in April 1955, and two feet of snow in March 2002 and late April 2008.
Eight or nine inches of snow would be about half of their usual March totals.
A few years ago here in the Minneapois area we got 12-15 inches of snow on May 1. Somehow we survived. The people in Alaska will also overcome this tragedy somehow.
8.8”? Around here we called that a dusting. I doubt anyone in Anchorage believes they were “buried”.
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