High winds across Southcentral Alaska are expected to pick up this weekend, with gusts up to 60 mph in Anchorage and 75 mph in the Matanuska Valley:
Cars drive along Postmark Drive in Anchorage as strong gusts of wind move snow onto the road on Saturday, Jan. 1, 2022.
High winds across Southcentral Alaska that have already begun to cause some power outages in Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough are expected to pick up speed overnight and into Sunday morning. By Saturday afternoon, winds in northern and western Anchorage had already reached gusts of up to 40 to 50 mph, according to Shaun Baines, a meteorologist with National Weather Service’s office in Anchorage.
Winds were strongest at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport, around downtown Anchorage and in Turnagain on the west side of town, he said. An outage was affecting about 125 Chugach Electric members in the Turnagain neighborhood by midday Saturday, on top of a few other smaller outages across Anchorage, the power utility said in a social media post.We have an outage impacting about 125 members south of Northern Lights between Wendy’s Way and Aero Avenue. There are also a handful of smaller outages throughout the city. Our crews are responding as they can get to each one. Thank you for your patience.
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