High Wind in Annette Island, Alaska

High Wind January 11, 2026 · Annette Island, Alaska

71 mph

Measured gust (62 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

The mesonet station at the Annette Island Packing Company began measuring high wind during the morning of the 11th, lasting into the 2pm hour. The peak gust of 71mph as measured at 120pm. Other high elevation sites on the island reached gusts of 86mph at Yellow Hill and 104mph at Chester Lake that afternoon.

The wider storm

A low center with an occluding frontal system tracked northward into the eastern Gulf of Alaska through the 11th. The low was slowly weakening as it approached, but caused a short period of high winds over portions of the southern panhandle.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1317484. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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