Snow buries Cordova, Valdez; Nome is cold | Anchorage Daily News
As of 2 p.m. Friday, the National Weather Service office reported a season total of 272.1 inches of snow. An accumulation of 19.2 inches was recorded for Thursday....The Richardson Highway, the only road into town, was closed by multiple avalanches in Thompson Pass. The Department of Transportation said it was "shooting" avalanches, using explosives to purposely set off snow slides that could be cleared before they became an unpredictable hazard, and hoped to have the road open by 8 p.m. on Friday. .
Cordova Mayor Jim Kallander issued a disaster declaration...
"It's more snow than anybody's ever seen," Kallander said. "Cordova's a very resourceful community, and it takes an awful lot for us to have to go ask for help."
Flashback: Impacts of global warming in Alaska
In many ways, Alaska is the “Paul Revere of Global Warming”, and serves as a sentinel for the impacts of global warming...Because of warmer temperatures, there has been less snow to protect the tree roots and also early dehardening of the foliage.
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