Anchorage, AK weather
Right now 45°, cloudy · tonight 39°, rain · seven days from the National Weather Service
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Right now · 45° · cloudy · calm · 4° warmer than this time yesterday · at Merrill, 1:55 AM
Today, in the Weather Service’s words
A chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 39. North wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Seven days
Winter in Anchorage
Anchorage averages 59 inches of snow a year, according to NOAA’s 1991-2020 climate normals - a regular snow place. Snow several times a winter, well-practised response. Closures happen but need a real storm.
That is why local snowfall thresholds differ so much from one town to the next: a district that plans for 59 inches a year is equipped differently from one that never sees any. Here, roughly 6 inches in a single storm is where a normal school day comes under threat.
Sources: National Weather Service forecast and hourly grid for Anchorage (api.weather.gov), updated Tue, 4:31 AM UTC. Sunrise and sunset from NOAA’s solar position calculations. Snowfall normals from NOAA’s 1991-2020 US Climate Normals. County lines from the US Census Bureau.