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Heavy Snow in Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

Heavy Snow January 18, 2021 – January 19, 2021 · Taiya Inlet and Klondike Highway, Alaska

What the National Weather Service wrote

Estimated 20 inches of snow fell at the Moore Creek snotel site. Multiple avalanches occurred on the Klondike Highway keeping it closed over the subsequent days due to cleanup.

The wider storm

Strong wet front with a moderate atmospheric river aimed at the panhandle. upper elevations of the Klondike cold enough for snow and with the ample moisture incoming high snow totals look likely. some blowing and drifting snow is also possible.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 939733. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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