Alaska to get slammed with heavy rain after snowier than normal December

ALASKA — After a caller bout of dense snow, Alaska's Panhandle could get slammed with torrential rain, resulting successful perchance melted snowfall and expanding the state's flood risk.

The authorities was deed with a snowier than mean December. Typically, Juneau sees betwixt 40 and 50 inches of snow. But successful December 2025, the snowfall full surpassed records, reaching a whopping 82 inches, oregon implicit 7 feet.

The influx of snowfall caused ample vessels to descend successful the Juneau, Alaska, harbor. U.S. Coast Guard officials said dense snowfall tin rapidly trim stableness and origin vessels to sink, which tin pb to spot harm and pollution.

HEAVY SNOW AND EXTREME WEATHER CAUSE SUNKEN VESSELS AND AVALANCHE RISK IN ALASKA

As the atmospheric stream targets the Alaska Panhandle done Friday and into Saturday, dense rainfall combined with warmer temperatures volition pb to accelerated snowfall melt crossed the region.

Precipitation is expected to commencement arsenic snow successful immoderate areas, but warmer aerial volition rapidly determination in, and the snowfall volition alteration implicit to rainfall by Friday afternoon.

Juneau sees a record-breaking December with accumulating snowfall reaching 82 inches.

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As of Thursday, there's inactive astir 3 feet of snowfall connected the crushed successful areas surrounding Juneau. Rapid snowfall melt could hap and importantly summation the hazard of flash flooding, according to the FOX Forecast Center.

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Snow and ice could perchance artifact tempest drains, and rise the flood hazard adjacent more.

Rainfall totals are expected to scope from 2 to 3 inches done the commencement of the weekend, with locally higher amounts successful confederate areas approaching 4 inches.

In an antithetic setup, wide rainfall is falling crossed the Lone Star State this week, with the bulk of it falling successful Central and West Texas. 

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Flood Watches person been issued from Skagway done Juneau, and southward to Ketchikan.

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Additional rounds of rainfall are apt into aboriginal adjacent week arsenic aggregate areas of debased unit determination done the region.