Ice Storm in Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, Alaska

NWS Employee in Nome reported steady freezing rain through the morning hours with .25 inch accumulation of ice at the noon observation. Roads were reported to be very slick with heavy ice accumulations on trees and power lines.

A low pressure system tracked northeast from the Bearing Sea into the central Yukon over the course of several days. Initially this system brought strong onshore winds to the Bearing coastline along with a mixed bag of wintry precipitation for the Seward Peninsula. As the week progressed a strong arctic high pushed onto the Arctic coastline from the north resulting in very strong easterly flow for the North Slope along with lots of blowing snow to produce widespread blizzard conditions.