Alaska Weather Summary

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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
400 PM AKDT TUE MAY 21 2013

ON THE TUESDAY WEATHER MAP LOW PRESSURE MOVED TOWARD THE CENTRAL
BERING SEA AND WEAKENED...AS STRONG HIGH PRESSURE REMAINED OVER
THE GULF OF ALASKA AND THE EASTERN MAINLAND. A MODERATE LOW 
PRESSURE CENTER WAS OVER THE CENTRAL BERING SEA...WITH A FRONTAL
SYSTEM WRAPPING AROUND THE LOW...FROM NORTH OF ATKA ISLAND...TO
THE WEST...CURVING NORTH NORTHEAST OF SHEMYA ISLAND...THEN EAST
AND SOUTHEAST BETWEEN NUNIVAK ISLAND AND THE PRIBILOFS...REACHING
SOUTH OVER THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS JUST EAST OF DUTCH HARBOR. 
STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WAS CENTERED OVER THE SOUTH CENTRAL GULF OF
ALASKA...WITH THE RIDGE COVERING THE GULF OF ALASKA...PUSHING
EAST OVER THE PANHANDLE...AND NORTH OVER THE THE SOUTHCENTRAL...
THROUGH THE INTERIOR...ACROSS THE NORTH SLOPES BROOKS RANGE EAST
TO THE BEAUFORT SEA.

WINTER WEATHER WAS ONLY REPORTED IN THE NORTHWEST...AS THERE WAS
SNOW WITH FOG IN NOME...WHILE LIGHT SNOW FELL IN KIVALINA AND TIN
CITY. RED DOG MINE HAD SNOW WITH BLOWING SNOW WHICH REDUCED THE
VISIBILITY TO ONE-HALF MILE. WEATHER RADAR SHOWED THE SNOW AND
RAIN FROM THE SOUTHERN BERING STRAIT...OVER NORTON SOUND...THE
YUKON DELTA...WESTERN LOWER YUKON VALLEY...ACROSS THE KUSKOKWIM
DELTA...BRISTOL BAY AND THE ALASKA PENINSULA TO SUTWIK ISLAND.
CAPE LISBURNE...KIVALINA...TIN CITY AND WALES STARTED THE DAY
WITH LIGHT RAIN WITH FOG WHICH CHANGED TO LIGHT SNOW WITH FOG.
CAPE ROMANZOF SAW RAIN AND SNOW MIXED. NOME STARTED THE DAY WITH
LIGHT SNOW WITH FOG THAT CHANGED TO LIGHT RAIN WITH FOG DURING
THE MID MORNING. LIGHT RAIN WITH FOG WAS REPORTED AT MOUNTAIN
VILLAGE...MARSHALL...SAND POINT...COLD BAY...KOTZEBUE...RUSSIAN
MISSION AND ON THE PRIBILOFS. SHEMYA ISLAND SAW LIGHT DRIZZLE.
THERE WAS ALSO LIGHT RAIN IN THE INTERIOR AT KALTAG AND GALENA...
WHILE LIGHT RAIN BEGAN IN SELDOVIA JUST BEFORE NOON.

MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES COVERED THE SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE...THE WESTERN
GULF OF ALASKA...PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND...THE ANCHORAGE BOWL...THE
COPPER RIVER BASIN...THE EASTERN INTERIOR...FROM EAGLE TO
FAIRBANKS...TO DENALI PARK AND DELTA JUNCTION...UP TO FORT YUKON
AND ARCTIC VILLAGE TO ANAKTUVUK PASS...AS WELL AS THE CENTRAL
AND EASTERN BEAUFORT SEA COAST. 

THE PRESSURE GRADIENT BETWEEN THE STRONG HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE
EASTERN HALF OF THE MAINLAND AND THE FRONTAL SYSTEMS TO THE WEST
GENERATED GUSTY WINDS OVER 25 MILES AN HOUR UP AND DOWN THE WEST
COAST. KING SALMON AND CAPE ROMANZOF FELT GUSTS OVER 40 MILES AN
HOUR THROUGH THE DAY. COLD BAY AND WALES HAD SOUTHERLY GUSTS TO
45 MILES AN HOUR...RED DOG MINE HAD SOUTHERLY GUSTS NEAR 55 MILES
AN HOUR JUST AFTER NOON. THERE WERE GUSTS FOMR 30 TO 35 MILES AN
HOUR IN WHITIER UNTIL LATE MORNING.

IT WAS A LITTLE MORE SPRINGLIKE AS ALL OF THE GREAT LAND WAS
ABOVE FREEZING AND THE INTERIOR AND SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE HAD HIGH
50S TO MID 60S. THE NORTHSLOPES AND NORTHWEST HAD MID 30S TO MID
40S FOR AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES. ARCTIC VILLAGE WAS THE COOL
SPOT FOR THE INTERIOR AT 41...BETTLES AND MCGRATH WERE 50...AS
FAIRBANKS AND EIELSON AFB HAD 59 AND TANANA WAS 60 DEGREES AT 3
PM. THE WEST HAD MID 30S TO HIGH 40S...WITH HOOPER BAY...CAPE
ROMANZOF AND MEKORYUK AT 36...SAINT GEORGE ISLAND WAS 41...BETHEL
AND DUTCH HARBOR WERE 48 AND KING SALMON WAS 49. THE CENTRAL AND
WESTERN ALEUTIANS HAD LOW TO MID 40S. IT WAS ALL 40S AND 50S FOR
THE SOUTHCENTRAL...WITH KENAI...KODIAK AND WHITTIER AT 47...
ANCHORAGE...ELMENDORF AFB AND MIDDLETON ISLAND AT 48...AS
GLENNALLEN AND WASILLA WERE 54. CORDOVA WAS 51...YAKUTAT WAS
53...JUNEAU AND WRANGELL WERE 61...PETERSBURG AND ANNETTE ISLAND
HAD 63...WHILE KETCHIKAN AND KLAWOCK WERE 65 DEGREES FOR THE
SOUTHEAST AT 3 PM.

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SE MAY 13