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Anchorage gets its first snow in a month

Snow was falling across Anchorage early Friday, leaving drivers facing a potentially slushy commute to work, said the National Weather Service.

"On the roadways, what we're seeing is pretty slushy conditions so it's not going to be a middle-of-the-winter-type slipperiness," said Shaun Baines, meteorologist with the Weather Service in Anchorage.

The forecast calls for about an inch of snow Friday throughout Anchorage. Snow last fell on the city one month ago, on Sept. 29 and 30. That snowfall also marked the city's first official accumulation of the season, Baines said.

"It's definitely been above normal temperature-wise and below normal snow-wise," Baines said.

Baines said the snow should taper off by Friday afternoon, with temperatures hovering in the 30s. Any snow that sticks will likely survive the weekend before melting as temperatures rise next week, he said.

"The cold air will be short lived," he said.

Baines said Kenai and Soldotna got mostly rain Friday morning, while snow fell across much of the Susitna Valley. In Talkeetna, rain was expected to turn to snow, Baines said.

Tegan Hanlon

Tegan Hanlon was a reporter for the Anchorage Daily News between 2013 and 2019. She now reports for Alaska Public Media.

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