Continuing rains this summer could produce significant flooding in parts of Southcentral Alaska this weekend.
Continuing rains this summer could produce significant flooding in parts of Southcentral Alaska this weekend, as a cool wet streak continues across the region into next week.one step short of a warning, for most of Southcentral from 4 p.m. Friday through Saturday evening.The watch calls for peak amounts of 2 to 4 inches of rain in mountains north of Turnagain Arm, with 0.7 to 1.5 inches in populated areas such as the Anchorage Bowl, Matanuska Valley and western Kenai Peninsula.
NWS meteorologist Michael Kutz said Friday morning that several Southcentral weather stations ranging from Talkeetna to Portage had recorded more than an inch of rain over the past 24 hours. Koliganek, on the Alaska Peninsula, had already seen nearly 2.5 inches of rain, with 2.2 inches recorded in Cordova.
Kutz credited the scale of the rainfall to the ongoing interplay of a high-pressure and a low-pressure system over the Pacific Ocean, delivering a near-constant deluge to the region this summer. “It’s basically because of the geographic size of this thing, forcing a lot of the systems to curl up and come through the Gulf of Alaska and ultimately over us here in Southcentral,” he said.
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