December 16: An update to this post (Decemeber 16, 2022) is here.
Is the heavy snow in Anchorage something like the lake effect snow in Buffalo and other places? Does wind blow along the sound picking up extra water?
That is possible but I'd say it's at most very unusual for Anchorage proper given the terrain orientation. Probably slightly more common on the Cook Inlet coast of the Kenai Peninsula. Brian may have a better sense of that.
Is the heavy snow in Anchorage something like the lake effect snow in Buffalo and other places? Does wind blow along the sound picking up extra water?
That is possible but I'd say it's at most very unusual for Anchorage proper given the terrain orientation. Probably slightly more common on the Cook Inlet coast of the Kenai Peninsula. Brian may have a better sense of that.