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Heavy Snow in Haines Borough and Klukwan, Alaska

Heavy Snow February 10, 2023 – February 11, 2023 · Haines Borough and Klukwan, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

Very wet snow was reported by a trained spotter 7 miles south of Haines beginning around 6pm on the 10th. Snow became heavy by 7pm, measuring a whopping 6 inches by 1030pm. The same spotter measured an additional 3 inches by morning, then changed to rain around 7am. The COOP observer in town had measured 6.1 inches of snow with rain falling by 8am.

The wider storm

As one system moved out, another was quick to move into the region with a gale force front. The Haines Chilkat Peninsula saw a period of heavy snow the evening of the 10th followed by a change to rain the next morning.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1079841. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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