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The official measurement of 0.46 inches at 10 p.m. set the record for the most rain on a day in November, and more was expected before the final official measurement at midnight.
"We haven't ever seen anything like this in the Interior," hydrologist Ed Plumb at the National Weather Service in Fairbanks said Monday as the rain fell.
Ice storm unprecedented in Interior Alaska meteorologists say
Seeded on Wed Nov 24, 2010 2:47 PM EST
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Looking a little more closely at what just happened in Alaska. The air mass was huge, wet, and warm ……. The records from Barrow are amazing :
(Day)
11-22-10 Barrow ……. 33.0°F (new) 32.0°F 1926 94 years in the record
11-22-10 King Salmon …. 52.0°F (new)48.0°F 1947 68 years in the record
King Salmon is on the Bering Sea, in southwest Alaska.
(Night)
11-21-10 Barrow ….. 23.0°F (new) 17.0°F 1926 94 years in the record
11-22-10 Barrow ….. 22.0°F (new) 16.0°F 1996
Breaking night time heat records on the 3rd week of Nov. by 6 F degrees on the Arctic Ocean.
For the past week Alaska set 29 new high temperature records 9 during the day, 20 new night time highs. They record zero new low records for the same period.
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/ extremes/ records.php?ts=daily&elem=maxt&month=11&day=23&year=2010&sts=US&submitted=Get+Records#recs
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