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Semitrailer spills fuel in Thompson Pass wreck during first snow
A Big State Logistics response crew offloads fuel from a damaged tanker at Mile 42 of the Richardson Highway on Friday. (Candice Bressler/Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation) A ...
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Four to Six Feet of Snow Possible on Alaska’s Peaks—the Current State of the Snowpack
In Alaska, fifty to 75 inches of snow is possible above 1700 feet in some mountain ranges, especially near Thompson Pass, through next Tuesday, January 14th. Snow levels will lower in the latter ...
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Winter Isn't Over in Alaska: 30+ Inches Forecasted
A series of storms will continue to hammer parts of South Central Alaska through early ... and dropping significant snow from Portage Valley to Thompson Pass. Through Thursday afternoon, Thompson ...
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How Alaska DOT Uses GPS for Precision Plowing
Alaska's Richardson Highway links Valdez to the rest of the state. Closing the road isn't an option, even in the worst winter weather. If snow plow drivers who work the road through Alaska's ...
Alaska Public Media1y
Southcentral Alaska buried in more than a foot of snow from winter storm
(Adam Nicely/Alaska Public Media ... and between 48 and 60 inches in Thompson Pass near Valdez. According to the National Weather Service, the nine inches of snow that fell in Anchorage on ...
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Alaska to Get Snow While Parts of State Have Unusually Warm Temperatures
The National Weather Service (NWS) issued several winter weather alerts for Alaska, with some areas ... 10 to 20 inches from mile marker 40 to Thompson Pass. There will be snow accumulations ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner7y
5 days, 6 feet of snow -- and more to come in Thompson Pass
In the past five days, 76 inches of snow has fallen on Thompson Pass, the 2,678-foot pass where the Richardson Highway crosses over the Chugach Alaska mountain range into the port city of Valdez.
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Alaska heli-ski guide dies in Thompson Pass avalanche
A heli-skiing guide died in an avalanche in Thompson Pass near Valdez on Monday, according to Alaska State Troopers ... as spring has brought warmer weather to the mountains and caused slopes ...
Alaska Dispatch News7y
Snowstorm triggers avalanche in Thompson Pass, closing road to Valdez
A storm swept through parts of Southcentral Alaska overnight, dumping more than 40 inches of snow on Thompson Pass and triggering an avalanche that has shut down the highway to Valdez. The ...
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The World’s Most Absurd Snowfall Records
In February 1963, Thompson Pass near Valdez was pummeled with 78 inches (6.5 feet) of snow in 24 hours . Alaska’s coastal mountains regularly see huge “snow dumps,” and this event showed how even at ...
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Four to Six Feet of Snow Possible on Alaska’s Peaks—the Current State of the Snowpack
In Alaska, fifty to 75 inches of snow is possible above 1700 feet in some mountain ranges, especially near Thompson Pass, through next Tuesday, January 14th. Snow levels will lower in the latter ...