Anchorage and much of Southcentral’s bout of repeated heavy snows has ended as the weather pattern has shifted to a colder drier northerly winds aloft. This post is a wrap-up of Snowpocalypse 2022. An earlier post on this event from December 12 is here
A bit more detail from when I had my first official lead forecaster job in ANC (1977) ... the 'classic' setup for prolonged (12-24 hrs+) snow events in ANC generally required the GOM storm to occlude out near Middleton Island with the decaying center then drifting towards & then into Prince William Sound where i would spin itself out. ANC surface winds were almost always northwesterly.
A bit more detail from when I had my first official lead forecaster job in ANC (1977) ... the 'classic' setup for prolonged (12-24 hrs+) snow events in ANC generally required the GOM storm to occlude out near Middleton Island with the decaying center then drifting towards & then into Prince William Sound where i would spin itself out. ANC surface winds were almost always northwesterly.