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Heavy Snow in Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

Heavy Snow February 25, 2020 – February 27, 2020 · Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

Alaska 511 reported at 735am on 2/26 that the Klondike Highway was closed due to small avalanches on road. Blowing and drifting snow with possible blizzard conditions at the pass with wind gusts of 20 to 35 mph. Snow accumulation was a minimum of 5 inches. The road was re-opened at noon on the 27th.

The wider storm

An east to west frontal band moved northward over the region spreading snow across the northern Lynn Canal region.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 873587. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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