It’s been a strange winter, not just here in the Great Land, but all across the United States. I’m not so sure the weather has been what you’d call normal anywhere in the U.S. this winter; it’s either a deep freeze or unseasonably warm. Here, in our Susitna Valley digs, on this last Friday of January, it’s not snowing, but raining. Yes, really – it’s 41 degrees, according to our indoor-outdoor thermometer:
An unseasonably warm January will bring at least an inch of rain to almost all of Southcentral Alaska this weekend, with deep snow set to fall in the Talkeetna area.
Much of the region, including Anchorage, the Matanuska-Susitna Borough and the Kenai Peninsula, is under a flood watch from Friday morning through Monday morning.
“Excessive runoff may result in flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying and flood-prone locations,” National…
