Winter Storm in Lower Kobuk & Noatak Valleys, Alaska

A weakening low pressure system over the southern Bering Straits and its associated frontal occlusion extended eastward helped, produce a small area of freezing rain. A small, shallow pocket of above freezing temperatures aloft near the occluded front produced the rain that subsequently fell into the surface area where temperatures were below freezing. This resulted in the brief period of freezing rain that was reported at the village of Noatak.