Interior sees record temperatures as former typhoon approaches Alaska

The Alaska Highway westbound of Tok, Alaska. (Arthur Chapman/Flickr)

Some of Interior Alaska’s hottest temperatures of nan summertime were recorded Sunday, according to nan National Weather Service.

“Right on nan Alcan Highway, correct on nan border, we do person a study of 91 degrees,” said meteorologist Bobby Bianco. “Tok deed 86 degrees, Northway deed 89 degrees and location was a study from Eagle arsenic good that it deed 90 there.”

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Bianco said nan regular high-temperature records group Sunday were nan merchandise of a Chinook upwind that’s being displaced by a low-pressure front, bringing a melodramatic upwind shift.      

“Pretty acold northwesterly winds (are) coming into nan Interior, and location is simply a chance for immoderate elevated snow, I’d opportunity (at altitudes of) astir 2,000 feet and higher,” Bianco said. “Even little elevations person nan chance for immoderate frost successful nan Interior, particularly Tuesday morning.”

Meanwhile, nan remnant of a typhoon is headed for Western Alaska and nan Bering Sea.

“The ex-Typhoon Ampil will beryllium coming into nan cardinal Bering by Tuesday day and yet done nan Bering Strait by Wednesday midday and that will beryllium bringing immoderate dense rainfall to nan westbound coast, perchance an inch aliases much of rain,” he said.

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Bianco says nan large wind is besides forecast to battalion up to 60-mph winds, and a 4 to 8-foot water surge.