Heavy Snow in City of Hyder, Alaska

Light snow began in Hyder around noon local time on Sunday the 15th then rates increased overnight with visibility down to a half mile at times at the nearby Stewart B.C. weather station. A trained spotter in Hyder reported 11 inches of snow had fallen by 8am AKDT with snow continuing. The same spotter had another 6 inches by 2pm AKDT and topped out at of total of 18.5 inches when it had begun to change to rain around 630pm AKDT the evening of the 16th.

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.