Days upon days of rain, plus a glut of precipitation earlier in the year, have amounted to the wettest year on record in Anchorage through mid-August, even when factoring in the drought conditions earlier this summer.
Alaska had its driest June on record this year, but it’s been mostly rainy, especially in Southcentral, since about the first week of July.
National Weather Service climate researcher Brian Brettschneider says that’s when a low-pressure system set up over the Bering Sea, causing moisture to flow from the Pacific Ocean into Alaska. And Brettschneider says the resulting days upon days of rain, plus a glut of precipitation earlier in the year, have amounted to the wettest year on record in Anchorage through mid-August, even when factoring in the drought conditions earlier this summer.Listen:: Well, we typically see the rainy season set in toward the end of July. I mean, June is a dry month, July is fairly dry, but wetter. And August is a pretty wet month everywhere.
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