From electroverse.net - 11 FEET of snow has already fallen at a ski resort in Alaska since Oct 1st with more extremely heavy snow (12 FEET over 2 days) forecast to fall according to a November 1st youtube report (see below).
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Alyeska Resort in Girdwood has started its snow season in jaw-dropping fashion. Officially, Alaska's largest ski resort begins recording its annual snowfall on October 1, but this year historic falls hit earlier than usual with 13 inches...
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Alyeska Resort in Girdwood has started its snow season in jaw-dropping fashion.
Officially, Alaska's largest ski resort begins recording its annual snowfall on October 1, but this year historic falls hit earlier than usual with 13 inches "unofficially" settling on September 23:
For historical data consistency, we officially start recording our annual snowfall on October 1 each year. After the storm last night, we are unofficially sitting at 13"
pic.twitter.com/ifaCosrD1E
— Alyeska Resort (@resortalyeska) September 24, 2021
September's snowstorm was a mere taster of things to come. Since that official start date of Oct 1, a whopping 136 inches (11.3 feet) of global warming goodness has accumulated at the top of the mountain (to Nov 1). Breaking down the numbers - data courtesy of alyeskaresort.com— 22 inches of that fell within the last 24 hours, with the 'snow depth' at the summit currently standing at an astonishing 67 inches.
"We got pounded," said one Girdwood local in an email to me.
"[This is] the most snow I have seen in my 37 years around here," they added.
Temperatures across The Last Frontier have held cooler than the average in recent months. This is thought to have been brought about by "much more sea ice in the Chukchi and East Siberian Seas northwest of Alaska," according to Rick Thoman, climate specialist with ACCAP/IARC at UAF:
October 2021 brought much more #seaice in the Chukchi & East Siberian Seas northwest of Alaska than the past few years, as seen in the median daily concentration for Oct 2018-21 from high res AMSR2 passive microwave data, courtesy U. Bremen. #akwx #Arctic @Climatologist49 @ZLabe pic.twitter.com/h5GLghr3So
— Rick Thoman (@AlaskaWx) November 1, 2021
Moreover, and as was the case last season, a lingering anomalous chill contributed to Alyeska holding onto its snowpack into the summer — as reported by climatologist Brian Brettschneider, snow depth on the mountain was still at 98 inches in late May.
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Alaskans brace for a record 12 feet of snow in two days
The snowiest place in Alaska could become the second snowiest as an atmospheric river is forecast to dump up to 144 inches of snow on the Chugach Mountains.