Weather Alerts for Alaska
1. High Wind Warning for: Southern Kenai Mtns
2. High Wind Warning for: Thompson Pass
3. High Wind Watch for: Kodiak Island Northeast
4. Wind Advisory for: Valdez
5. Winter Storm Warning for: Central Beaufort Sea Coast; Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast; Central Arctic Plains; Central Brooks Range; Romanzof Mountains
6. Winter Storm Warning for: Dalton Highway Summits; White Mountains and High Terrain South of the Yukon River
7. Winter Storm Warning for: Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills
8. Winter Storm Warning for: Northern Denali Borough
9. Winter Storm Warning for: South Slopes Of The Central Brooks Range; Upper Koyukuk Valley
10. Winter Storm Warning for: Southern Seward Peninsula Coast; Interior Seward Peninsula
11. Winter Storm Warning for: Upper Chena River Valley; Tanana Flats; Eielson AFB and Salcha; Goldstream Valley and Nenana Hills; Chatanika River Valley; Two Rivers; Fairbanks Metro Area; Nenana; Central Interior
12. Winter Weather Advisory for: Bering Strait Coast
13. Winter Weather Advisory for: Central Copper Valley; Tok Cutoff
14. Winter Weather Advisory for: City and Borough of Juneau
15. Winter Weather Advisory for: Glacier Bay
16. Winter Weather Advisory for: Kivalina and Red Dog Dock; Baldwin Peninsula
17. Winter Weather Advisory for: Kuskokwim Valley West; Kuskokwim Delta Coast and Nunivak Island; Interior Kuskokwim Delta; Western Capes
18. Winter Weather Advisory for: Northern Alaska Peninsula; Bristol Bay Borough (Naknek and King Salmon); Lake Iliamna / Nila Vena / Nanvarpak
19. Winter Weather Advisory for: Northern Seward Peninsula
20. Winter Weather Advisory for: Petersburg Borough
21. Winter Weather Advisory for: Upper Tanana Valley; Delta Junction; Eastern Alaska Range North of Trims Camp
22. Winter Weather Advisory for: Yukon Flats; Fortymile Country
Want more detail? Get the Complete 7 Day and Night Detailed Forecast!
Current U.S. National Radar--Current
The Current National Weather Radar is shown below with a UTC Time (subtract 5 hours from UTC to get Eastern Time).
National Weather Forecast--Current
The Current National Weather Forecast and National Weather Map are shown below.
National Weather Forecast for Tomorrow
Tomorrow National Weather Forecast and Tomorrow National Weather Map are show below.
North America Water Vapor (Moisture)
This map shows recent moisture content over North America. Bright and colored areas show high moisture (ie, clouds); brown indicates very little moisture present; black indicates no moisture.
Weather Topic: What is Rain?
Home - Education - Precipitation - Rain
Next Topic: Shelf Clouds
Precipitation in the form of water droplets is called rain.
Rain generally has a tendency to fall with less intensity over a greater period
of time, and when rainfall is more severe it is usually less sustained.
Rain is the most common form of precipitation and happens with greater frequency
depending on the season and regional influences. Cities have been shown to have
an observable effect on rainfall, due to an effect called the urban heat island.
Compared to upwind, monthly rainfall between twenty and forty miles downwind of
cities is 30% greater.
Next Topic: Shelf Clouds
Weather Topic: What is Sleet?
Home - Education - Precipitation - Sleet
Next Topic: Snow
Sleet is a form of precipitation in which small ice pellets are the primary
components. These ice pellets are smaller and more translucent than hailstones,
and harder than graupel. Sleet is caused by specific atmospheric conditions and
therefore typically doesn't last for extended periods of time.
The condition which leads to sleet formation requires a warmer body of air to be
wedged in between two sub-freezing bodies of air. When snow falls through a warmer
layer of air it melts, and as it falls through the next sub-freezing body of air
it freezes again, forming ice pellets known as sleet. In some cases, water
droplets don't have time to freeze before reaching the surface and the result is
freezing rain.
Next Topic: Snow
Current conditions powered by WeatherAPI.com
