Finally! Anchorage reaches 50 degrees

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) – The wait is over! Ted Stevens Anchorage Worldwide Airport reported a excessive temperature of 51 levels on Sunday. 2023 ties Could 7, 1973 and Could 7, 1964 because the third newest within the 12 months the town has taken to succeed in 50 levels.

Monday will see a continuation of solar and clouds with scattered to quite a few afternoon and night showers throughout Anchorage, the Valley, and the western Kenai. Excessive temperatures will once more flirt with 50 levels. Widespread precipitation, principally rain, however some moist snow for areas above 500 ft, happens all through the Chugach Vary. Highs will usually keep within the center to higher 40s.

Scattered showers make a return to Southeast on Monday, particularly in the course of the afternoon and night. Temperatures will begin the day round 40 with afternoon highs reaching the higher 40s for Yakutat and Sitka, with center 50s for the rest of the area.

Just a few scattered rain and excessive elevation snow showers speckle the jap Inside on Monday with highs within the 40s and 50s. Higher 20s with fog, clouds, and a few peeks of solar for the North Slope.

One other sturdy spring storm winds up bringing wind, rain, and sure even some snow to the Aleutians on Monday, reaching Southwest Alaska in the course of the afternoon and night. That storm will maintain issues cool and unsettled for the southern half of the state via mid-week.

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