metalicwx367

Checking in from Alaska. We ended the winter with 77 inches of snow which was only 1 inch below average. Coldest winter in nearly 20 years. Coldest March on record. 4th coldest Spring on record. Snowiest January on record which made up for the snowless December. Highest wind gust ever recorded at Anchorage airport when we hit 75MPH back in December. December was a beast when it came to these back to back destructive Matansuka Valley wind events. I'm seeing a lot of photos and videos from Waycross, GA today on Facebook of significant damage from that thunderstorm earlier today. No warning was on it and multiple people are saying it was absolutely a tornado. That or a microburst. Interesting video from the storm below. https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1LW4kAXRzY/

If this were to occur, it would be almost exactly a year from last winter's Gulf Coast snow event. I'm rooting for you guys. We've finally made up for our snow drought here in Anchorage with us picking up 29 inches of snow over the last 6 days. I've never seen so much in this short of a period snow in my life.

Northeast Anchorage. It's been exceptionally cold and dry this month.

Things could always be worse. You could live in Alaska and not receive any snowfall for the entire month in what is normally your snowiest month.

Congrats! You're about to pass our current season snowfall in Anchorage, AK.

You should see the weather models up here in Alaska. They will literally back off on a winter storm the day of the event. The amount of microscale effects and terrain up here in Anchorage make this place extremely challenging to forecast for. On November 17th, NWS was forecasting 4-8 inches of snow for the majority of the Anchorage area and we got 0.

Sometimes we have no control over that lol. Checking in from cold Anchorage and missing the warm SE weather.

Nearly 3 inches of rain here in my backyard today from that quasi-stationary cell earlier and then a second round 30 mins later. Still constant thunder and lightning outside but majority of the activity is to the south now. Just got back in my hometown today from Anchorage, Alaska so that was quite the change.

Nope not at all this winter lol

Yep that is correct!

Last few days in Australia. Getting sent to Anchorage Alaska next. Lol. Well I guess that historic snowstorm in GA last month was just the warm-up for Alaska.

Haha yeah! Fortunately it looks like it may stay to our east.

Wild going from historic snow event in Southern Georgia to nearly a Category 5 hurricane just chilling off the coast of Australia. We will see where this comes ashore but I've never experienced anything over a Category 1.

We are sitting here on the edge of our seats trying to figure out where this beast is gonna go. I've never seen so much disagreement and divergence between models and ensembles in this short of a timeframe. If this ends up tracking further west than expected as some of the ensembles suggest, we are gonna be in serious trouble here in Exmouth.

It was indeed a very fun month. Glad to have experienced a historic winter storm in my hometown before returning back to this weather in Australia.