Heavy Snow in Copper River Basin, Alaska

Heavy Snow January 16, 2021 – January 19, 2021 · Copper River Basin, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

AK DOT at Ernestine Camp reported 16 inches of snowfall and widespread difficult driving conditions.

The wider storm

A very active winter weather pattern from January 16 to 18, 2021 brought impactful winter weather to much of Southern Alaska. Blizzard, High Wind, and Winter Storm Warnings were posted over a 1000 mile area from the tip of the Alaska Peninsula to the Canadian Border. This included a Blizzard Warning for the Alaska Peninsula, the first for that area since December 2019.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 932168. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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