{"id":20575,"date":"2016-12-25T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T17:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/heavy-snow-forecast-for-turnagain-pass-area\/"},"modified":"2016-12-25T09:02:37","modified_gmt":"2016-12-25T17:02:37","slug":"heavy-snow-forecast-for-turnagain-pass-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/heavy-snow-forecast-for-turnagain-pass-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavy snow forecast for Turnagain Pass area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>ANCHORAGE \u2014 <\/strong>The National Weather Service is forecasting heavy snow and strong winds in Alaska\u2019s Turnagain Pass and Portage Valley over the holiday weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Weather Service earlier Friday issued a blizzard watch for the area, replacing it later with a winter weather advisory.<\/p>\n<p>Forecasters say the advisory is in effect between Saturday afternoon and mid Sunday morning. They say expected conditions could make driving difficult.<\/p>\n<p>As much as a foot of snow could fall in the area and visibility could be greatly reduced. Forecasters say winds of up to 50 mph also are possible.<\/p>\n<p>The Weather Service says snow is expected to intensify late Saturday afternoon, improving Sunday morning. It says whiteout conditions in blowing snow are possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANCHORAGE \u2014 The National Weather Service is forecasting heavy snow and strong winds in Alaska\u2019s Turnagain Pass and Portage Valley over the holiday weekend. The Weather Service earlier Friday issued a blizzard watch for the area, replacing it later with a winter weather advisory. Forecasters say the advisory is in effect between Saturday afternoon and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-20575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20575"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=20575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}