In Portage Valley and along eastern Turnagain Arm, gusts up to 60 mph were possible Sunday morning. The eastern Kenai Peninsula can expect to see winds between 15 and 30 mph and gusts to 45 mph with the strongest gusts likely Sunday morning. “It’ll still get a little breezy down here in the Anchorage Bowl, but the worst of this stuff is going to be up in the hills,” Kutz said. On Anchorage’s Upper Hillside winds up to 35 mph with gusts up to 55 mph were likely late Sunday morning through the afternoon, the weather service said in the statement. “We’re still in our transition phase coming from winter to summer.” “Normally for this time of year, we would see a lot more sunshine, less rain, less wind,” Kutz said. “It’s going to be some pretty significant weather.”īetween Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, the “unseasonably strong storm” will bring widespread heavy rain and strong easterly winds with gusts as high as 60 mph to parts of southern Alaska, according to a special weather statement issued by the National Weather Service’s Anchorage office Saturday.
“What we have is a pretty well-developed low center that’s moving up along the Alaska Peninsula, and bringing along some heavier rains and gustier winds,” said Michael Kutz, a forecaster with the National Weather Service’s Anchorage office. Windy and rainy conditions were forecast to taper off Monday, Braun said. In the southern portion of Anchorage, southeasterly winds were expected to pick up Sunday evening. On the Seward Highway along Turnagain Arm, south of Anchorage, “we just have heavy rainfall and gusty winds in the forecast, which could lead to some pulling along the road,” Braun said.įarther inland, in areas sheltered by the mountains, winds were dropping into the 20 to 30 mph range, she said. In particularly exposed areas, windy conditions could affect drivers. Forecasters expected the strongest winds Sunday from the Turnagain Arm area through Portage in the lower Knik Arm near Palmer and Wasilla and in the Copper River Basin. In the Prince William Sound area, wind gusts of 40 to 50 mph were reported, said Aviva Braun, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service office in Anchorage. Sunday: An unusually strong storm for this time of year was bringing rain and heavy winds to parts of Southcentral Alaska on Sunday.
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