Winter Weather — Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

2022-01-26 to 2022-01-28 · Kenai Peninsula, Alaska

Event narrative

RWIS cameras at Anchor Point and Kenai Municipal Airport showed very low visibility across the western half of the sky. Most of the lower visibilities were reported along the coast. Homer Airport reported lowest visibilities at one quarter mile. Homer ASOS reported one half mile or less at 28th 16:25 AKST and lasted until the 28-17:53 AKST observation which reported moderate snow/freezing fog and then heavy snow and freezing fog. Soldotna reported one half mile visibility and moderate snow and freezing fog at 27th 10:25 AKST.

Spotter reported in an email to the office an estimation of over a foot of snow.

Wider weather episode

A winter storm moving northward through the Gulf of Alaska sent precipitation in the form of snow into the Arctic air entrenched over Southcentral Alaska resulting in heavy snowfall. Southwest Alaska was on the backside of the system and experienced strong gusty winds and low visibilities due to blowing snow and wind chills.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1018131. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.