Be Careful Cordovians...Get Ready Southcentral!

Are your ready for the weather to rumble?

Tools

By Janessa Webb
Bio | Email

Are your ready for the weather to rumble? A mature low pressure system is moving toward Southcentral fairly quickly putting 2/3 of the state under some kind of watch or warning.

Blizzard conditions continue to persist towards the Southwest into Bristol Bay until mid-day. To the southeast wind chills of 30 to 40 below are expected to hit with several inches of snow along with gale force winds.

High wind warning along Turnagain Arm and Higher Elevations have been put in place until 9 pm tonight with sustained winds of 55 to 70 mph along with gust of 95 mph. This front will move towards the northern coast this evening and weaken, which will allow the gradient to relax a bit.

Periods of light snow throughout the Anchorage Bowl and Matsu will occur late tonight.

The approach of a secondary low will once again increase the flow across the Chugach Range. As this low moves towards Prince William Sound on Wednesday into Thursday, look for more measurable snow to develop.

Blizzards warnings for Western Kenai Peninsula to the Prince William Sound will end once the winds do. However, a generous amount of moisture will continue to flow over the region. The Susitna Valley will also experience snow with 8-14 inches of accumulation.

Cordova: another 7 to 14 inches is headed your way, along with several inches of rain. this is going to make for an even more nasty situation, with temperatures above freezing.

This will be a rough 24 to 36 hours Southcentral, please be safe!

You have indicated this comment should be removed.

Close

The comment has been submitted for review. Thank you .

Cordovan said on Tuesday, Jan 17 at 2:27 PM

Can you please let the folks at your station know we are called, Cordovans, not Cordovians. Valdez folks are Valdezians, Cordova folks are Cordovans. Not a big deal to some, but if you want to be accurate...

80018797
Inappropriate? Alert Us!

Add a comment

Name:

Comment: 1000 Characters Left

KTVA CBS 11 | Anchorage, Alaska News and Weather and its affiliated companies are not responsible for the content of comments posted or for anything arising out of use of the above comments or other interaction among the users. We reserve the right to screen, refuse to post, remove or edit user-generated content at any time and for any or no reason in our absolute and sole discretion without prior notice, although we have no duty to do so or to monitor any Public Forum.

This content requires the latest Adobe Flash Player and a browser with JavaScript enabled. Click here for a free download of the latest Adobe Flash Player.