Heavy Snow in Lower Kobuk Valley-northern Seward Peninsula, Alaska

A storm center as deep as 962 millibars moved slowly northeast from southwest of Kamchatka on the 18th to the southwest Bering Sea on the 20th. The storm weakened as it moved northeast, dissipating over northwest Alaska on the morning of the 22nd.The system brought Blizzard conditions and local high winds to the western Alaska and Arctic coasts, and heavy snows to the northern Koyukuk Valley.Blizzard conditions occurred at:St. Lawrence Island - Bering Strait: Gambell Extreme Wind Chill occurred at:St. Lawrence Island - Bering Strait: Tin City 20th-21st: -78Arctic Slope Coastal: Point Lay 21st: -89High Wind occurred at:St. Lawrence Island - Bering Strait: Gambell AWOS 20th-21st: gusts to 59 mphHeavy Snow occurred (24 hour amounts) at:Koyukuk-Upper Kobuk Valleys: Wiseman: 21st: 6.0"; 22nd: 17.0"Northern Seward Peninsula-Lower Kobuk Valley: Noatak; 22nd: 6.5".