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ALASKA WEATHER SUMMARY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE VALDEZ AK
400 PM AKST WED FEB 13 2013

ON THE LATE MORNING WEATHER MAP LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM CONTINUES TO
BE THE MAIN WEATHER INFLUENCE ACROSS THE GREAT LAND..WITH THE
STRONGEST LOWS SOUTH OF THE ALASKA PENINSULA AND ALEUTIANS WITH
FRONTAL SYSTEMS OVER THE CENTRAL NORTH PACIFIC..SOUTHWESTERN 
GULF OF ALASKA AND NORTHEAST PACIFIC. A WEAKER LOW WAS OVER THE
BERING STRAIT JUST SOUTHWEST OF NOME..WITH TWO FRONTAL SYSTEMS
..ONE TO THE NORTH ACROSS KOTZEBUE SOUND..AND NORTHEAST AND 
EAST OVER THE NORTH SLOPES BROOKS RANGE EAST INTO THE NORTHERN
YUKON. THE SECOND FRONT REACHED SOUTHEAST OVER EASTERN NORTON 
SOUND..THEN SOUTH ACROSS THE LOWER YUKON AND KUSKOKWIM VALLEYS
..THROUGH BRISTOL BAY TO..AND ALONG..THE EASTERN ALEUTIANS FROM
COLD BAY TO UNIMAK ISLAND AND INTO THE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN. A 
STATIONARY FRONT EXTENDED TO THE EAST..FROM THE NORTHEAST 
CORNER OF THE LOWER YUKON VALLEY..PAST FAIRBANKS..THEN 
NORTHEAST TO THE YUKON TERRITORIES. A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE 
PUSHED EAST FROM THE WESTERN BERING SEA TO THE EASTERN BERING 
SEA..NORTH OF THE PRIBILOFS. THE RIDGE FROM A HIGH PRESSURE 
CENTER OVER THE NORTHEAST PACIFIC REACHED NORTH OVER THE 
PANHANDLE..THEN WEST ACROSS THE COPPER RIVER BASIN TO THE 
ANCHORAGE BOWL AND SUSITNA VALLEY.

SNOW..BLOWING SNOW AND FOG WERE SCATTERED AROUND ALL OF THE 
GREAT LAND EXCEPT A BIT OF THE SOUTH AND THE SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE
TODAY. SKAGWAY HAD SNOW WITH FOG ALL MORNING..WHILE JUNEAU AND
YAKUTAT HAD SNOW AND FOG UNTIL MID MORNING AND FURTHER SOUTH 
SITKA AND ANNETTE ISLAND HAD LIGHT RAIN. THERE WAS LIGHT SNOW
WITH PATCHY FOG AROUND PRINCE WILLIAM SOUND AT CORDOVA..PORTAGE
..SEWARD..AND VALDEZ..WHILE WHITTIER HAD SNOW EARLY THEN LIGHT
RAIN SHOWERS AND KODIAK ISLAND SAW SNOW AND FOG UNTIL 
MID-MORNING THEN RAIN AND SNOW MIXED. THERE WAS ALSO SNOW AND 
FOG IN TALKEETNA..ON THE KENAI AT HOMER AND IN THE INTERIOR AT 
MCGRATH AND KALTAG. TO THE WEST AND NORTH MORE SNOW WITH PATCHY 
FOG WAS REPORTED ON THE PRIBILOFS..COLD BAY..DILLINGHAM..SAND 
POINT..TIN CITY..KIVALINA..WAINWRIGHT..CAPE LISBURNE..WALES AND
WITH BLOWING SNOW AT DUTCH HARBOR..NOME AND KOTZEBUE. IT 
STARTED RAINING IN JUNEAU JUST BEFORE NOON AND AT KETCHIKAN 
EARLY IN THE AFTERNOON.

IT WAS ANOTHER FAIRLY CALM DAY AROUND MOST OF THE GREAT LAND
TODAY AS ONLY DUTCH HARBOR..COLD BAY..NOORVIK..KODIAK..TIN
CITY..CORDOVA BOAT HARBOR..MIDDLETON ISLAND AND PORTAGE REPORTED
WINDS GUSTING OVER 30 MPH..WITH A PEAK WIND OF 52 MPH AT DUTCH
HARBOR THIS MORNING.

HIGHS IN THE 20S BELOW ZERO WERE FELT THIS WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON
ALONG THE BEAUFORT SEA COAST OF NORTHEASTERN ALASKA. SINGLE
DIGITS ABOVE AND BELOW ZERO WERE RECORDED FOR HIGHS ALONG THE
BROOKS RANGE AND ALONG THE NORTH SLOPE AND THE SOUTH SLOPE OF
THE EASTERN BROOKS RANGE..AS WELL AS SAINT LAWRENCE ISLAND..
THE NORTHERN CHUKCHI SEA COAST..AND THE SOUTHERN AND WESTERN 
SEWARD PENINSULA. HIGHS IN THE TEENS AND 20S ABOVE WERE NOTED
ALONG THE SOUTHERN CHUKCHI SEA COAST..THE NORTHERN AND EASTERN
SEWARD PENINSULA..AND THROUGH THE NORTHWESTERN VALLEYS. SINGLE
DIGIT HIGHS ABOVE AND BELOW ZERO WERE ALSO RECORDED THIS 
AFTERNOON THROUGH THE UPPER KOYUKUK..CENTRAL..AND WESTERN
TANANA RIVER VALLEYS..ACROSS THE YUKON FLATS..AND AROUND THE
GREATER FAIRBANKS AREA. HIGHS WERE IN THE TEENS AND 20S ABOVE
FROM THE UPPER TANANA VALLEY AND THE FORTYMILE COUNTRY ALONG
THE AL-CAN BORDER..EASTWARD TO BIG DELTA..AND THE LOWER KOYUKUK
..MIDDLE YUKON..AND NORTHERN KUSKOKWIM VALLEYS. HIGHS REACHED
TO THE LOWER 30S FROM DENALI PARK SOUTHEASTWARD TO THE COPPER
BASIN AREA. SOUTHWESTERN ALASKA SAW HIGHS TODAY IN THE SINGLE
DIGITS ABOVE AND BELOW ZERO THROUGHOUT THE LOWER YUKON VALLEY
..THE Y-K DELTA..NUNIVAK ISLAND..AND THE PRIBILOFS..WHERE THE
TEMPERATURES THIS MORNING WERE IN THE TEENS ABOVE..BUT FELL 
THROUGHOUT THE DAY INTO THE SINGLE DIGITS ABOVE BY LATE 
AFTERNOON. HIGHS IN THE MID 20S TO THE MID 30S WERE OBSERVED
ACROSS BRISTOL BAY..THROUGH THE LOWER KUSKOKWIM VALLEY..THE
ALASKA PENINSULA..AND THE ALEUTIAN CHAIN. ACROSS SOUTHCENRTAL
ALASKA..HIGHS RANGED FROM THE UPPER 20S TO THE MID 30S ACROSS
THE WHOLE OF THE REGION. THE NORTHEASTERN GULF COAST AND 
SOUTHEAST PANHANDLE AREAS RECORDED HIGHS TODAY FROM THE LOWER
30S TO THE LOWER 40S.

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WZ/SE FEB 13