Winter Weather — Anchorage Muni To Bird Creek, Alaska

2022-02-15 · Anchorage Muni To Bird Creek, Alaska

Event narrative

Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport reported one and one half mile visibility with light freezing drizzle around 6:46 am on the 15th. Advisory was reactionary based on persistent freezing drizzle/rain that lasted from 6:45 AM through 3 PM AKST at

Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport and several other sites in Anchorage proper. About one tenth of an inch of ice fell at Sand Lake office, with 0.13 inches reported as freezing drizzle at Anchorage Ted Stevens International Airport. Total ice accretion likely slightly lower with temps occasionally rising to 33-34F.

Wider weather episode

A large storm system in the North Pacific moved northward towards Southern Alaska and brought a myriad of precipitation types. Moisture overran the Arctic air at the surface that was entrenched across the southern Mainland resulting in the hazardous winter weather.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1019133. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.