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Anchorage, Alaska, set two seemingly opposite records, one for high temperature and one for snowfall, on the same day.
Just the right setup, with a moist and active pattern, allowed a warm temperature record to occur on the same calendar day as heavy snowfall.
Strong southerly flow courtesy of an upper-level high over northwestern Canada brought warmer air and plenty of moisture into southern Alaska late Monday into early Tuesday.
Temperatures briefly rose above 40 degrees in Anchorage early Tuesday as a result of this southerly flow. The high for the day was set during the midnight hour when temperatures rose to 44 degrees.
This tied the daily record high for the date.Above-average temperatures were also observed into northern Alaska. Utqiaġvik (formerly known as Barrow) ended its
streak of 25 consecutive days of temperatures below 15 degrees below zero.
However, a cold front then pushed through Anchorage. Temperatures dropped to 32 degrees by 5 a.m. Tuesday, and snow was reported.
Snow continued to fall throughout Tuesday due to this first system and another low that was approaching from the south.
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