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High Wind in Anchorage Muni To Bird Creek, Alaska

High Wind February 20, 2022 · Anchorage Muni To Bird Creek, Alaska

75 mph

Measured gust (65 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Potter Marsh on the Anchorage Hillside reported a wind gusts to 65 knots. One of the stations on top of Flattop Mountain reported a wind speed of 48 knots with a gusts to 71 knots.

The wider storm

A far reaching winter storm set up a tight pressure gradient on its western side resulting in high winds for the Eastern Aleutians. On the north side of the storm, precipitation overran Arctic air already in place across the North Pacific resulting in heavy snowfall.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1019142. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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