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High Wind in Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

High Wind February 9, 2022 – February 10, 2022 · Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

60 mph
Estimated gust (52 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Gusts up to 60 mph were reported at the PAGY ASOS in Skagway.

The wider storm

An atmospheric river with an associated low center in the far western gulf brought a large slug of moisture into the northeast Gulf Coast staring early morning Friday into Friday evening. With the low center well to the southwest, a wedge of colder air held firm across the Yakutat area with northeast winds, thus keeping warming at bay and allowing a very heavy, wet snow to fall. Originally the warm air was supposed to push into the coast by around 9 AM or so, but the strength of the cold air wedge held firm until around 4 PM this afternoon.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1011642. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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