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Arctic Blast Set to Arrive on Thanksgiving; Dangerous Wind Chills with Lake Effect Snow

A significant arctic outbreak will spread over the northern Plains on Thanksgiving and advance farther south and east on Friday into the weekend. Much of the lower 48 states will see freezing temperatures with dangerous wind chills in the northern Plains. Heavy lake effect snow is likely downwind of the Great Lakes. Rain is forecast from southern New England into the Southeast U.S. Read More >

 

With increasing certainty, the storm that we have been tracking for the past couple of days has started to move towards southeast Alaska this weekend. What does this mean for southcentral Alaska? With this storm, significant snowfall is no longer expected for southcentral Alaska. However, there is a slight chance for snow flurries in the Anchorage area and the Kenai Peninsula tonight through the weekend. If it does snow, accumulations will be minimal.