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SHORT TERM FORECAST SOUTHCENTRAL ALASKA (Days 1 through 3)

Temperatures remained well above freezing today as front moved through the Kenai Peninsula, Anchorage Bowl and Prince William Sound this afternoon. Web camera views around Southcentral continued to show snow covered roads in the Susitna Valley north of Talkeetna eastward to the Copper River Valley along the Richardson Hwy and along the Tok Highway northward from Gulkana. Snow will persist in these areas through tomorrow morning as the front lingers here the longest. Rain and bare roads were seen in the cameras elsewhere around Southcentral with surface observations recording widespread scattered rain showers and continued calm winds. High temperatures ranging from the middle 30s to lower 40s today with precipitation amounts through 3:00pm ranged from a few hundredths of an inch to as high as four tenths of an inch.

Temperatures in the northern Copper Basin remained below freezing today. Overnight, snow will continue to change from this afternoon's mix of rain/snow showers to all snow as the front slowly moves eastward. Snow will persist into late tomorrow morning with a 15% chance of accumulations above an inch by the late morning hours. A second weak front moves through the region tomorrow afternoon and evening leading to increased cloud cover and scattered snow showers though widespread accumulation is not expected.

In the Gulf of Alaska, a high builds Monday through midweek. As southwest flow increase, winds in the Cook Inlet and Shelikof Strait increase to small craft and gale strength winds tomorrow. Ridging arrives to Southcentral Tuesday and Wednesday leading to dry conditions.

-Johnston

AVIATION

PANC...Showers continue to diminish in the area after a trough passage earlier today. Winds will shift by this evening from a SE Turnagain Arm wind to broad up-inlet flow, increasing in the evening hours. Winds will gust in excess of 20kts overnight into the first half of Monday before subsiding. Dry air in the backside of the system should allow skies to clear this evening, with generally just upper-level clouds with a passing shortwave to the north.