Heavy Snow in City and Borough of Juneau, Alaska

Periodic snow showers fell on the 8th, then became steady around 5pm AKDT with periods of heavy rates through the night, particularly over North Douglas Island and areas just south of the airport. By 5am AKDT on the 9th, a report on North Douglas had at least 8 inches of snow in the previous 12 hours. An NWS employee in the same area measured 12 inches of accumulation between 9pm and 6am AKDT. A report from the Lemon Creek area also had nearly 12 inches by 745am AKDT. Snow showers continued through mid day on the 9th, then rates decreased. Other parts of the Juneau zone, particularly north of the airport had much lighter snowfall accumulations from these showers reaching just over 4 inches at the NWS Office and less than 2 inches at Lena Point.

Snow showers incoming from the Gulf produced wildly differing snowfall amounts across Juneau area. Amounts ranged from 1 inch at Tee Harbor to just over a foot from Lemon Creek to Douglas Island.