In Anchorage, the temperatures forecast for this week won't come close to breaking any city records, Ahsenmacher said. But they are a departure from years of mild winters that rarely saw temperatures below zero.
The latest update put the Swan Lake fire’s size at 23,530 acres.
“It started breaking into pieces beneath us,” said Phillip Rode.
The Bering Sea island is breeding habitat for millions of seabirds, including rare migratory species. A “strike team” had been searching for the rogue rat for 10 months.
“You could take your sailboat and sail from Dillingham all the way to Little Diomede and never see much more than an ice cube.
The city is so parched and hot that even a cigarette tossed into a pile of fluffy cottonwood fiber could ignite a fire.
The 61-year-old man was flown to an Anchorage hospital for treatment of his injuries, troopers said.
The highway remained closed north of Willow after the fire jumped the road Sunday, authorities said. The fire started Saturday afternoon when wind blew a tree onto a power line.
Lightning strikes seen Monday in Cook Inlet and on the Kenai Peninsula were heading toward South Anchorage, a meteorologist said.
State transportation workers found wet ground may have contributed to the small landslide, despite the lack of recent rain.
In Southcentral Alaska, wasps seem to be everywhere. One Anchorage clinic has seen more than 250 sting patients this year.
Why did the sea lion cross the road? Scientists don't know yet.
The storm that walloped Southcentral Alaska also left about 32 inches of snow in Moose Pass and 30 in Seward.
The Tsunami Warning Center recorded waves of less than 1 foot above normal as a result of the earthquake.
Ketchikan officials say there’s “currently no danger of dam failure” but noted that a flood advisory is in place through Sunday.
Rockfall along the Seward Highway near Beluga Point has been happening since wind and rain battered the area earlier this week.
The cold and wet hunters built a fire to keep warm until Alaska Army National Guard rescuers arrived hours later.
People in Kodiak, Homer and Sand Point were among those who headed to higher ground after the quake prompted a tsunami warning from the Alaska Peninsula to the western Kenai Peninsula.
Areas of the Southeast Alaska city “received between 3 and 7 inches of rain” in 24 hours over the weekend. The sodden ground caused mudslides in some areas, and wrecked roads and ditches around John Street and Peters Lane in Douglas.
There’s little relief from the daytime heat in the forecast for the rest of the holiday weekend.
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