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High Wind in Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

High Wind March 1, 2020 – March 2, 2020 · Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

70 mph

Measured gust (61 kt)

What the National Weather Service wrote

Marine Exchange sensor at the Skagway Harbor measured peak gusts over 60mph out of the south periodically throughout the 1st and into the 2nd. The highest gust measured was 70mph at 1043am on the 1st.

The wider storm

Beginning on leap day, a strong front moved onshore with heavy snow and blowing snow for Yakutat and White Pass. As winds shifted to the south, high winds occurred in Skagway through the morning of the 2nd.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 874015. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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