Winter Storm in Misty Fjords, Alaska

Winter Storm February 20, 2011 · Misty Fjords, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

Visibility was frequently reduced to 0.5 SM in heavy snow at Stewart B.C. on 2/20. Hyder measured a strom total of 12.7 inches of new snow with this storm.

The wider storm

All of SE Alaska was in cold air with the arctic front offshore on 2/18. A moderate gale center moved into the western Gulf of Alaska, which was just enough to cause the front to move over the Panhandle for heavy snow on the night of the 18th into the afternoon of the 20th.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 281587. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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