Anchorage breaks a snow record: There's more than two-and-a-half feet of snow on the ground at the National Weather Service's official Anchorage measuring post. It's a new snowpack record for this time of year.
John and Christina Pruitt have been shoveling snow for an hour around their apartment complex on Telequana Drive early Monday afternoon.
Snow dumped on Southcentral Alaska this weekend, with more than 8 inches falling in the Anchorage area and about 5 inches in the Matanuska-Susitna Borough. That brought this year’s winter precipitation total to more than 100 inches. National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Brettschneider joins Alaska Public Media’s Wesley Early for our Ask a Climatologist segment and says this weekend has led to a record amount of snowpack this late in the season. While the month of April may bring to mind spring weather, or at the very least ice breakup, Brettschneider says in Alaska, it can be kind of hit or miss.We’ve had some really big April snow months and we’ve had Aprils with practically no snow.
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