Weather

Weekend brings weather record, first frost to Anchorage

The first official citywide frost of the year nipped Anchorage Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service.

A temperature of 32 degrees was recorded at Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, the city's official weather recording station, said Michael Kutz, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.

Colder parts of the Anchorage Hillside and East Anchorage have seen conditions to produce frost already, he said. But Sunday was the first day where temperatures were low enough all over the city.

[Frost is near. Here's what you should be doing now in your yard.]

The frost isn't particularly late or early this year — it usually comes in the last week of September.

But on Saturday, Anchorage set a different kind of weather record.

On Saturday, Sept. 30 at 5:30 a.m., the temperature at the airport dipped into the 30s for the first time this fall — the latest date on record for a first sub-40 degree temperature, Kutz said. The previous record was Sept. 29, 2005.

[Study: 'Unprecedented' rain, warmth for Alaska by end of century]

Michelle Theriault Boots

Michelle Theriault Boots is a longtime reporter for the Anchorage Daily News. She focuses on in-depth stories about the intersection of public policy and Alaskans' lives. Before joining the ADN in 2012, she worked at daily newspapers up and down the West Coast and earned a master's degree from the University of Oregon.

ADVERTISEMENT