Spring has sprung in many parts of Alaska, while winter is just hanging on in others. Climatologist Brian Brettschneider talked with Casey Grove about what turned out to be a big snow year for most of the state.
Spring has sprung in many parts of Alaska, while winter is merely hanging on in others.
Back for our Ask a Climatologist segment, National Weather Service climatologist Brian Brettschneider is holding on to wintry thoughts, as we’re now able to look back and analyze the winter that was. And Brettschneider says there are several takeaways from this slightly colder and snowier second La Niña winter in a row.: La Niña gives us, in most cases, a pretty good idea that we’re going to be cooler than normal. In much of the state, it actually ended up working out. North of the Alaska Range, and then in Southeast Alaska, it was a little bit below normal, you know, one to three degrees below normal. Here in Southcentral, it was actually kind of above normal.
: Yeah, but even the next day, the roads were basically bare pavement, even though there was snow piled up everywhere. Just with the high sun angle, the way it is now, it goes pretty quickly.: This was a pretty big snowfall winter for most of the state, maybe except for the Southwest to lower Yukon, lower Kuskokwim Delta. But most of the state had a really big snow year. You know, Fairbanks and Anchorage got about 90 inches. Juneau over 100 inches. All of those are significantly above normal.
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