April is bringing the showers to Alaska

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – Anchorage is in the midst of its 5th wettest April on record. So far the city has recorded 1.38 inches of precipitation, when .43″ is the normal rainfall amount for the month.

Southeast Alaska seeing some of the wettest weather today. Ketchikan getting an inch and a half of rain, with more than 6-tenths in Wrangell, Petersburg and Sitka.

An area of low pressure is over the Aleutians and will be the weather maker over the next several days. Winds will increase in the interior by Tuesday. Cold Bay saw the highest gust of wind at 52 mph.

The low circulation will ensure clouds and rain over the southern areas of the state, and generate some gusty winds as well.

Southcentral will see rain, heavy at times in Prince William Sound and the Seward area too. Otherwise, it is scattered shower in the Matanuska and Susitna Valleys and Kenai Peninsula.

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