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Late-May snow sets multiple records for Anchorage

The unseasonable snowfall Friday and Saturday has set a slew of new records in Anchorage, the National Weather Service says.

The 2012-13 snow season was 232 days long as of Saturday, the longest on record for the city, according to a Weather Service statement.

The previous record was 230 days, set in 1981-82. The season is measured from the first day of measurable snowfall - Sept. 29 this season - until the last.

The high temperature Friday was 37 degrees, which set a new daily record for the coldest maximum temperature on May 17. The old record was a high of 44 degrees in 1971, according to the Weather Service.

And finally, the 0.3 inches of snowfall on Friday in Anchorage set a daily record for May 17. Another 0.1 inches had fallen by 10 a.m. Saturday, also a daily record.

Here is how much snow landed in each corner of town and in parts of the Mat-Su, between Friday afternoon and 4 p.m. Saturday, according to the Weather Service:

Anchorage

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Upper De Armoun: 6.0 inches

Upper O'Malley: 4.0 inches

De Armoun/Birch: 3.5 inches

Paradise Valley: 2.5 inches

Seward Highway near Campbell Creek: 1.9 inches

Weather Service Sand Lake office: 0.4 inches

Eagle River

Hiland Road: 9.1 inches

Eagle River Road Mile 6: 6.3 inches

Eaglewood Subdivision: 4.4

Chugiak: 4.0 inches

Palmer: 3.6 inches

Talkeetna: 2.0 inches

By KYLE HOPKINS

khopkins@adn.com

Kyle Hopkins

Kyle Hopkins is special projects editor of the Anchorage Daily News. He was the lead reporter on the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Lawless" project and is part of an ongoing collaboration between the ADN and ProPublica's Local Reporting Network. He joined the ADN in 2004 and was also an editor and investigative reporter at KTUU-TV. Email khopkins@adn.com

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