12 January 2012

"Anchorage on pace for snowiest winter ever"

According to an article at www.adn.com,
Heavy snow is falling in Anchorage today, adding to what already has been the snowiest period for the city since records have been kept. 

~ snip ~ ... The weather service counts a snow year from July to June. From July 1 through Tuesday, Anchorage has received an official 81.3 inches of snow at the airport measuring station. Meteorologist Shaun Baines said that makes it the snowiest period for Anchorage since records have been kept. 

If the pace keeps up through the last snows in April or May, Anchorage is on track to have the snowiest winter ever, surpassing the previous record of 132.8 inches in 1954-55, Baines said. 

We're just grateful not to be in Valdez, or Cordova where they've gotten 26 feet of snow already. Global warming, my aunt Fanny.

7 comments:

ProudHillbilly said...

Yowza!

Stephen said...

What ProudHillbilly said...

Cathy said...

Can't say that I blame you for going from 'vexed' to ~snip~ . . . . . Yikes!

Mrs. S. said...

Is Alaska trying to compete with the U.P. (Upper Peninsula of Michigan)?

Rev. Paul said...

ProudHillbilly & Stephen ... yeah, what you said. :)

Cathy: "snip" means I omitted some of the article & pasted paragraphs that appeared farther down. No worries, though.

Mrs. S.: it wasn't our intention, but if the U.P. gets 26 feet of snow, then so be it. Heh.

Quizikle said...

Finally getting caught up with my favorite blogs...

There wasn't a bit of snow up north of Boise. Road open and clear to Stanley...at New Year's!

Ski resorts hadn't opened yet. I was wondering where all the snow was.

It's getting late enough in the year y'all can keep it now (...as a "survivor" of both the UP and Donner Pass)

(http://thestormking.com/Weather/Sierra_Snowfall/sierra_snowfall.html)

Q

Rev. Paul said...

Q: "late in the year"? We're only halfway in. We could still get blizzards in late April/early May. And the way THIS winter is going so far, I suspect we will.