Juneau Running Out Of Room To Dump Record Snow As It Races To Dig Out Before Rain Arrives

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Juneau, Alaska, is racing to remove mountains of snow from across the city before rain turns a snow emergency into disastrous flooding. Flood watches are now in effect across the Alaska Panhandle for Friday into Saturday night.

As of Thursday morning, at least 34 inches of snow remained on the ground at Juneau International Airport after back-to-back storms. Teams of workers and volunteers are shoveling rooftops, digging out vehicles and sunken boats and hauling out truckloads of snow.

But the city is running out of places to pile up all that precipitation.

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From Juneau to Fairbanks, Alaska saw record-breaking snow and cold to start winter

from: https://alaskapublic.org/news/environment/2026-01-06/from-juneau-to-fairbanks-alaska-saw-record-breaking-snow-and-cold-to-start-winter

Alaska had a cold, and in some parts of the state very snowy, end to 2025.

December in Southeast Alaska was one for the record books, with historic snow and cold. Juneau had its snowiest-ever December and its coldest 30-day stretch in over 40 years.

Known for cold as much as Juneau is known for snow, Fairbanks just saw its chilliest 30-day stretch in a half-century.

National Weather Service climate researcher Brian Brettschneider — back for another Ask a Climatologist segment — says the early part of the season in Alaska has been characteristically wintry across the state.

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