Heavy Snow in Haines Borough and Klukwan, Alaska

Snow showers fell across the Chilkat Peninsula early on the 15th with advisory level rates. After a break, steady snowfall began again in the evening and ending during the morning of the 16th. The morning 511 report from DOT estimated that 4 to 8 inches of snow had fallen along the Haines Highway by 430am with difficult travel conditions. The COOP report from Haines Customs measured much less at 1.5 inches the morning of the 16th and the COOP in town measured 3.8 inches.

A low pressure tracked northward across the panhandle starting the morning of Sunday the 15th and continuing through Monday. Steady snowfall fell across the area, with strong winds and a change over to rain across the far south in the evening, and heaviest rates in Hyder and portions of the northern panhandle.