Statement as of 4:30 PM AKST on November 20, 2009
... Record temperatures this week...
At the Valdez National Weather Service office the temperature fell to
8 degrees this morning. This breaks the old record of 9 degrees set
in 1981... 1982 and 1993.
On Thursday November 19th the lowest minimum temperature was 5
degrees which tied the previous record set back in 1982. Also on
this date the maximum temperature only reached 15 degrees which also
tied the record low maximum set back in 1982.
On Wednesday November 18th the maximum temperature only reached 16
degrees which tied the previous record low maximum set back in 1974.
On Tuesday November 17th the maximum temperature only reached 20
degrees which tied the previous record low maximum set back in 2003
and 1985. Also on Tuesday the minimum temperature of 9 degrees tied
the previous lowest minimum set back in 1985.
Special Weather Statement - Middle Tanana Valley
Record Report - Alaska Peninsula, Anchorage, Baldwin Peninsula and Selawik Valley, Bristol Bay, Central Aleutians, Central Beaufort Sea Coast, Central Interior, Chukchi Sea Coast, Copper River Basin, Deltana and Tanana Flats, Denali, Eastern Alaska Range, Eastern Aleutians, Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast, Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills, Kodiak Island, Kuskokwim Delta, Lower Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys, Lower Kuskokwim Valley, Lower Yukon Valley, Matanuska Valley, Middle Tanana Valley, Northeast Prince William Sound, Northeastern Brooks Range, Northern and Interior Seward Peninsula, Northern Arctic Coast, Northwestern Brooks Range, Pribilof Islands, Southeast Prince William Sound, Southeastern Brooks Range, Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast, Susitna Valley, Upper Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Upper Koyukuk Valley, Upper Kuskokwim Valley, Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country, Western Aleutians, Western Arctic Coast, Western Kenai Peninsula, Western Prince William Sound, Yukon Delta, Yukon Flats and Surrounding Uplands
Public Information Statement - Baldwin Peninsula and Selawik Valley, Central Beaufort Sea Coast, Central Interior, Chukchi Sea Coast, Deltana and Tanana Flats, Denali, Eastern Alaska Range, Eastern Beaufort Sea Coast, Eastern Norton Sound and Nulato Hills, Lower Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Lower Koyukuk and Middle Yukon Valleys, Lower Yukon Valley, Middle Tanana Valley, Northeastern Brooks Range, Northern and Interior Seward Peninsula, Northern Arctic Coast, Northwestern Brooks Range, Southeastern Brooks Range, Southern Seward Peninsula Coast, St Lawrence Island and Bering Strait Coast, Upper Kobuk and Noatak Valleys, Upper Koyukuk Valley, Upper Kuskokwim Valley, Upper Tanana Valley and the Fortymile Country, Western Arctic Coast, Yukon Delta, Yukon Flats and Surrounding Uplands
Flood Warning - Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence, Monroe, Union, White, Woodruff
High Wind Warning - Eastern Sierra Slopes of Inyo County, Mono
Wind Advisory - Owens Valley, White Mountains of Inyo County
Winter Weather Advisory - Central Siskiyou County, Modoc County, Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Northern Lake County, Northeast Siskiyou and Northwest Modoc Counties, Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County, Western Siskiyou County
Winter Storm Warning - Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County, North Central and Southeast Siskiyou County, South Central Siskiyou County, West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada, Western Plumas County/Lassen Park
Winter Weather Statement - Upper Trinity River
Public Information Statement - Burney Basin / Eastern Shasta County, Carquinez Strait and Delta, Central Sacramento Valley, Clear Lake/Southern Lake County, Motherlode, Mountains Southwestern Shasta County to Northern Lake County, Northeast Foothills/Sacramento Valley, Northern Sacramento Valley, Northern San Joaquin Valley, Shasta Lake Area / Northern Shasta County, Southern Sacramento Valley, West Slope Northern Sierra Nevada, Western Plumas County/Lassen Park
Public Information Statement - Alamosa Vicinity/Central San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft, Canon City Vicinity/Eastern Fremont County, Central Chaffee County Below 9000 Ft, Colorado Springs Vicinity/Southern El Paso County/Rampart Range Below 7400 Ft, Crowley County, Del Norte Vicinity/Northern San Luis Valley Below 8500 Ft, Eastern Kiowa County, Eastern Las Animas County, Eastern San Juan Mountains Above 10000 Ft, Eastern Sawatch Mountains Above 11000 Ft, La Garita Mountains Above 10000 Ft, La Junta Vicinity/Otero County, Lamar Vicinity/Prowers County, Las Animas Vicinity/Bent County, Leadville Vicinity/Lake County Below 11000 Ft, Northern El Paso County/Monument Ridge/Rampart Range Below 7500 Ft, Northern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Feet, Northern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 8500 And 11000 Ft, Northwestern Fremont County above 8500 Ft, PIkes Peak above 11000 Ft, Pueblo and Vicinity/Pueblo County Below 6300 Ft, Saguache County East of Continental Divide Below 10000 Ft, Saguache County West of Continental Divide Below 10000 Ft, Southern San Luis Valley, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Above 11000 Ft, Southern Sangre De Cristo Mountains Between 7500 and 11000 Ft, Springfield Vicinity/Baca County, Teller County/Rampart Range above 7500 Ft/Pikes Peak Between 7500 And 11000 Ft, Trinidad Vicinity/Western Las Animas County Below 7500 Ft, Upper Rio Grande Valley/Eastern San Juan Mountains Below 10000 Ft, Walsenburg Vicinity/Upper Huerfano River Basin Below 7500 Ft, Western Chaffee County Between 9000 and 11000 Ft, Western Kiowa County, Western Mosquito Range/East Chaffee County Above 9000 Ft, Western Mosquito Range/East Lake County Above 11000 Ft, Western/Central Fremont County Below 8500 Ft, Wet Mountain Valley Below 8500 Feet, Wet Mountains Above 10000 Ft, Wet Mountains Between 6300 and 10000 Ft
Flood Warning - Calhoun, Franklin, Gulf, Liberty
Public Information Statement - Charlotte, Citrus, Hardee, Hernando, Hillsborough, Lee, Levy, Manatee, Pasco, Pinellas, Polk, Sarasota, Sumter
Flood Warning - Appling, Dodge, Effingham, Jeff Davis, Montgomery, Screven, Telfair, Toombs, Treutlen, Wheeler, Wilcox
Special Weather Statement - Baldwin, Banks, Barrow, Bartow, Bibb, Bleckley, Butts, Carroll, Catoosa, Chattahoochee, Chattooga, Cherokee, Clarke, Clayton, Cobb, Coweta, Crawford, Crisp, Dade, Dawson, DeKalb, Dodge, Dooly, Douglas, Emanuel, Fannin, Fayette, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Glascock, Gordon, Greene, Gwinnett, Hall, Hancock, Haralson, Harris, Heard, Henry, Houston, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Lamar, Laurens, Lumpkin, Macon, Madison, Marion, Meriwether, Monroe, Montgomery, Morgan, Murray, Muscogee, Newton, North Fulton, Oconee, Oglethorpe, Paulding, Peach, Pickens, Pike, Polk, Pulaski, Putnam, Rockdale, Schley, South Fulton, Spalding, Stewart, Sumter, Talbot, Taliaferro, Taylor, Telfair, Toombs, Towns, Treutlen, Troup, Twiggs, Union, Upson, Walker, Walton, Warren, Washington, Webster, Wheeler, White, Whitfield, Wilcox, Wilkes, Wilkinson
Wind Advisory - Caribou Highlands, Lower Snake River Plain, South Central Highlands
Winter Weather Advisory - Northern Clearwater Mountains, Southern Clearwater Mountains
Flood Warning - Alexander, Brown, Calhoun, Cass, Clay, Fulton, Jackson, Jersey, Madison, Mason, Menard, Morgan, Piatt, Pike, Randolph, Richland, Schuyler, Scott, Union
Areal Flood Warning - Logan
Dense Fog Advisory - Bureau, Carroll, Ford, Fulton, Hancock, Henderson, Henry, Jo Daviess, Knox, La Salle, Lee, Livingston, Marshall, Mason, McDonough, McLean, Mercer, Ogle, Peoria, Putnam, Rock Island, Schuyler, Stark, Stephenson, Tazewell, Warren, Whiteside, Woodford
Public Information Statement - Boone, Cook, DeKalb, DuPage, Ford, Grundy, Iroquois, Kane, Kankakee, Kendall, La Salle, Lake, Lee, Livingston, McHenry, Ogle, Will, Winnebago
Public Information Statement - Benton, Dearborn, Fayette, Franklin, Jasper, Lake, Newton, Ohio, Porter, Ripley, Switzerland, Union, Wayne
Dense Fog Advisory - Adair, Adams, Allamakee, Appanoose, Benton, Black Hawk, Boone, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cedar, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clarke, Clayton, Clinton, Dallas, Davis, Decatur, Delaware, Des Moines, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Fremont, Grundy, Hamilton, Hancock, Hardin, Henry, Howard, Iowa, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Keokuk, Lee, Linn, Louisa, Lucas, Madison, Mahaska, Marion, Marshall, Mitchell, Monroe, Montgomery, Muscatine, Page, Polk, Poweshiek, Ringgold, Scott, Story, Tama, Taylor, Union, Van Buren, Wapello, Warren, Washington, Wayne, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Worth, Wright
Public Information Statement - Buena Vista, Cherokee, Clay, Dickinson, Ida, Lyon, O'Brien, Osceola, Plymouth, Sioux, Woodbury
Dense Fog Advisory - Allen, Atchison, Barton, Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Doniphan, Elk, Ellsworth, Greenwood, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Labette, Marion, McPherson, Montgomery, Neosho, Reno, Rice, Saline, Sedgwick, Sumner, Wilson, Woodson
Public Information Statement - Boone, Bracken, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Lewis, Mason, Owen, Pendleton, Robertson
Flood Warning - Beauregard, Bossier, Calcasieu, Caldwell, East Baton Rouge, Franklin, Ouachita, Pointe Coupee, St. Mary, Union, Webster, West Feliciana
Public Information Statement - Central Penobscot, Central Piscataquis, Central Washington, Coastal Hancock, Coastal Washington, Interior Hancock, Northeast Aroostook, Northern Penobscot, Northern Piscataquis, Northern Somerset, Northern Washington, Northwest Aroostook, Southeast Aroostook, Southern Penobscot, Southern Piscataquis
Dense Fog Advisory - Dodge, Fillmore, Goodhue, Houston, Mower, Olmsted, Wabasha, Winona
Public Information Statement - Cottonwood, Jackson, Lincoln, Lyon, Murray, Nobles, Pipestone, Rock
Lake Wind Advisory - Lauderdale, Madison, Rankin
Flood Warning - Cape Girardeau, Carroll, Chariton, Gasconade, Jefferson, Linn, Livingston, Montgomery, Perry, Scott, St. Charles, St. Louis
Dense Fog Advisory - Adair, Andrew, Atchison, Buchanan, Caldwell, Clark, Clinton, Daviess, De Kalb, Gentry, Grundy, Harrison, Holt, Linn, Livingston, Mercer, Nodaway, Putnam, Schuyler, Scotland, Sullivan, Worth
Lake Wind Advisory - Central and Southern Valley, Garfield, McCone
Record Report - Beaverhead, Blaine, Broadwater, Cascade, Central and Southern Lewis and Clark, Chouteau, Eastern Glacier, Eastern Pondera, Eastern Teton, Fergus, Gallatin, Hill, Jefferson, Judith Basin, Liberty, Madison, Meagher, Northern Rocky Mountain Front, Southern Rocky Mountain Front, Toole
Dense Fog Advisory - Johnson, Nemaha, Otoe, Pawnee, Richardson
High Wind Warning - Mineral and Southern Lyon Counties
Wind Advisory - Esmeralda and Central Nye County, Las Vegas Valley, Spring Mountains-Red Rock Canyon, Western Clark and Southern Nye County
Public Information Statement - Extreme Eastern Elko County, Humboldt County, Northern Elko County, Northern Lander County and Northern Eureka County, Northern Nye County, Ruby Mountains/East Humboldt Range, Southern Lander County and Southern Eureka County, Southwest and South Central Elko County, White Pine County
Flood Warning - Martin
Public Information Statement - Adams, Auglaize, Brown, Butler, Champaign, Clark, Clermont, Clinton, Darke, Delaware, Fairfield, Fayette, Franklin, Greene, Hamilton, Hardin, Highland, Hocking, Licking, Logan, Madison, Mercer, Miami, Montgomery, Pickaway, Pike, Preble, Ross, Scioto, Shelby, Union, Warren
High Wind Watch - Central Oregon Coast, North Oregon Coast
Winter Weather Advisory - Eastern Douglas County Foothills, Klamath Basin, Northern and Eastern Klamath County and Western Lake County, Siskiyou Mountains and Southern Oregon Cascades, South Central Oregon Cascades
Winter Storm Watch, Winter Weather Advisory - Cascades in Lane County, Northern Oregon Cascades
Flood Warning - Allendale, Coastal Jasper, Hampton, Inland Jasper
Flood Warning - Spink
Wind Advisory - Northern Foot Hills, Sturgis/Piedmont Foot Hills
Public Information Statement - Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner, Minnehaha, Moody, Sanborn, Turner, Union, Yankton
Flood Warning - Angelina, Bowie, Calhoun, Cass, DeWitt, Houston, Hunt, Karnes, Liberty, Morris, Newton, Orange, Polk, Refugio, Rockwall, Smith, Trinity, Tyler, Victoria, Wood
Flood Warning - Guadalupe
Coastal Flood Warning - Chambers
Coastal Flood Warning - Brazoria, Galveston
Areal Flood Warning - Collin
Coastal Flood Advisory - Aransas, Calhoun, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, San Patricio
Flood Watch / Flood Statement - Caldwell, DeWitt, Gonzales
Record Report - Anderson, Aransas, Atascosa, Bandera, Bastrop, Bee, Bell, Bexar, Blanco, Bosque, Burnet, Caldwell, Calhoun, Collin, Comal, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Dallas, Delta, Denton, DeWitt, Dimmit, Duval, Eastland, Edwards, Ellis, Erath, Falls, Fannin, Fayette, Freestone, Frio, Gillespie, Goliad, Gonzales, Grayson, Guadalupe, Hamilton, Hays, Henderson, Hill, Hood, Hopkins, Hunt, Jack, Jim Wells, Johnson, Karnes, Kaufman, Kendall, Kerr, Kinney, Kleberg, La Salle, Lamar, Lampasas, Lavaca, Lee, Leon, Limestone, Live Oak, Llano, Maverick, McLennan, McMullen, Medina, Milam, Mills, Montague, Navarro, Nueces, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rains, Real, Refugio, Robertson, Rockwall, San Patricio, Somervell, Stephens, Tarrant, Travis, Uvalde, Val Verde, Van Zandt, Victoria, Webb, Williamson, Wilson, Wise, Young, Zavala
Public Information Statement - Armstrong, Carson, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Wheeler
Wind Advisory - Great Salt Lake Desert and Mountains, Salt Lake and Tooele Valleys
Flood Warning - Central Coast, Hood Canal Area, Lower Chehalis Valley Area, Olympics
Areal Flood Watch - Central Coast, Lower Chehalis Valley Area, Olympics
Winter Storm Watch, Winter Weather Advisory - South Washington Cascades, West Slopes Central Cascades and Passes, West Slopes Northern Cascades and Passes
Winter Storm Watch - Olympics
Dense Fog Advisory - Adams, Barron, Buffalo, Chippewa, Clark, Crawford, Dunn, Eau Claire, Grant, Green, Iowa, Jackson, Juneau, La Crosse, Lafayette, Monroe, Pepin, Pierce, Polk, Price, Richland, Rusk, Sauk, St. Croix, Taylor, Trempealeau, Vernon
Special Weather Statement - Brown, Calumet, Door, Florence, Forest, Kewaunee, Langlade, Lincoln, Manitowoc, Marathon, Menominee, Northern Marinette County, Northern Oconto County, Oneida, Outagamie, Portage, Shawano, Southern Marinette County, Southern Oconto County, Vilas, Waupaca, Waushara, Winnebago, Wood
Special Weather Statement - Jackson Hole, Salt River and Wyoming Ranges, Star Valley, Teton and Gros Ventre Mountains, Yellowstone National Park
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