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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ANCHORAGE AK
1025 AM AKDT SAT MAY 18 2013

UPDATED TO REFLECT TODAY'S SNOWFALL 

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...ANCHORAGE SETS A HOST OF NEW RECORDS...

THE OFFICIAL CLIMATE STATION FOR ANCHORAGE (AT THE NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE OFFICE ON SAND LAKE ROAD) RECEIVED 0.3 INCHES OF SNOW ON
FRIDAY MAY 17. THIS SETS A DAILY SNOWFALL RECORD BARELY EDGING OUT
THE OLD RECORD OF 0.2 INCHES SET IN 1989. 

A NEW DAILY RECORD FOR LIQUID PRECIPITATION WAS ALSO SET ON FRIDAY.
RAIN PLUS MELTED SNOW ADDED UP TO 1.30 INCHES WHICH BREAKS THE OLD
DAILY RECORD OF 0.21 INCHES SET IN 1959.

AS OF 10 AM THIS MORNING ANOTHER 0.1 INCHES WAS RECORDED. THIS SETS 
A NEW DAILY RECORD FOR MAY 18 BREAKING THE OLD RECORD OF A TRACE 
OF SNOW FROM 1966.  

THE SNOWFALL FROM THE PAST TWO DAYS MAKES 2012-2013 THE LONGEST 
SNOW SEASON SINCE RECORDS BEGAN IN 1917. THERE WERE 232 DAYS 
BETWEEN THE FIRST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL (SEPTEMBER 29) AND THE
LAST MEASURABLE SNOWFALL (MAY 18). THIS BREAKS THE OLD RECORD OF 
230 DAYS SET IN 1981-1982.   

THE HIGH TEMPERATURE ONLY REACHED 37 DEGREES ON FRIDAY. THIS SETS A
NEW DAILY RECORD FOR LOWEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE ON MAY 17 BREAKING
THE OLD RECORD OF 44 DEGREES SET IN 1971. THIS ALSO MAKES MAY 17 
THE LATEST DATE A MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE THAT LOW HAS OCCURRED. 
THE PREVIOUS LATEST OCCURRENCE OF A HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 37 DEGREES 
WAS MAY 4TH...OBSERVED IN THE YEARS 1945...1949...AND 2013.
  
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