It has really been a weird winter here in our corner of the Great Land. Normally we have snow measured in feet piled up in the yard by New Year’s Day, but between light snowfalls and unseasonably warm temps, we have less than a foot.
A lot of us are wondering when the other shoe is going to drop.
In fact, one shoe may have already done so in the form of a windstorm; this is why our power was out for 24 hours.
Here’s a list of peak wind gusts measured at various locations by the National Weather Service across Southcentral Alaska in Sunday’s storm. Crews were working Sunday evening to restore electricity to thousands of people in Anchorage and the Mat-Su.
Gusts of more than 60 mph were recorded at various locations across the region, with gusts exceeding 80 mph at several locations on the Anchorage Hillside and higher elevations.
The readings were…
