Anchorage Reaches 100" of Snow at Fastest Pace on Record (2024)

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Did Anchorage get 100 inches of snow? ›

Anchorage hit with over 100 inches of snow − so heavy it weighs 30 pounds per square foot. Alaska is on track to break snowfall records after Anchorage was blanketed with more than 100 inches − the earliest accumulation ever of that amount − collapsing roofs and closing schools.

A whopping 132.4 inches of snow — just a little over 11 feet — fell on Anchorage over the winter, as of the latest measurement Friday. That's only 0.2 inches shy of the second snowiest winter of 1954 and '55 and about two inches away from the all-time record of 134.5 inches set in 2011-2012.

In the winter of 1952–1953, 974.1 inches or 25 metres of snow fell—the most ever recorded in one season at one location in Alaska. It is not the most snow ever recorded in one season at one location anywhere in the fifty states as that record belongs to Mount Baker Ski Resort at 1,140 inches or 29 metres in 1998–99.

Anchorage set several daily and monthly snowfall records this winter, with more than 10 feet of snow dropping on town. But it doesn't look likely the city will break its all-time record of 134.5 inches of total snowfall for the season.

According to Mr. Burt, the official heat record for Alaska remains the 100° registered at Fort Yukon on June 27, 1915. However, there are questions concerning this figure as outlined by Alaskan weather expert Rick Thoman in his presentation Forensic Climatology in Alaska.

Soda Springs picked up 116 inches. Kingvale reported 106 inches, and the Palisades Resort in Tahoe got 93 inches. The U.C. Berkeley Central Sierra Snow Lab picked up 75.2 inches from this storm, and endured hours without power due to the combination of heavy snow and high winds bringing trees and power lines down.

Valdez Receives More Snow Than Almost Any Place on Earth

Thompson pass is the snowiest place in Alaska receiving 551.5 inches (1,401 cm) on average annually. Due to its close proximity to the ocean temperatures in Valdez are relatively mild compared to inland Alaska.

Kutz said that it's not uncommon for Anchorage to see sporadic snowfall in May, and that Thursday's snow is not the latest ever recorded in the season. It does mark the latest date on which Alaska's largest city has received an inch or more of snow, breaking the previous record set on May 6, 1955.

Sukayu Onsen (a hot spring in the Hakkoda mountains of Japan's Aomori prefecture) is the snowiest inhabited place in the world. Sukayu Onsen gets an average of 695 inches of snow a season. Extreme snowfall is not limited to Sukayu Onsen.

In Fairbanks, normal winter low temperatures are about -20°F, and in Anchorage they are about +5°F. The lowest recorded temperatures at both places are, of course, considerably lower than that, reaching -66°F at Fairbanks and -38° at Anchorage.

Has it ever snowed in August in Alaska? ›

America's northernmost city, Utqiagvik - formerly known as Barrow - averages 0.9 inches of snow each August, and can see snow year-round. Other interior Alaska cities that have also picked up August snow include Bettles (Aug. 9, 1969 - 2.6 inches), McGrath (Aug. 26, 1998 - 0.9 inch), Northway (Aug.

Anchorage has a frost-free growing season that averages slightly over one hundred days. Average January low and high temperatures at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport (PANC) are 11 / 23 °F (−11.7 / −5.0 °C) with an average winter snowfall of 75.59 inches, or 1.92 meters.

Anchorage sets record for earliest 100 inches of snow - Los Angeles Times.

Buildings in Anchorage are required to be designed and constructed to support a minimum of 40 pounds per square foot (psf) snow load. The 40 psf snow load requirement dates back (at least) to the 1960s.

In the maritime zone a coastal mountain range coupled with plentiful moisture produces annual precipitation amounts up to 200 inches in the southeastern panhandle, and up to 150 inches along the northern coast of the Gulf of Alaska.