{"id":81572,"date":"2022-02-06T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/rain-records-racked-up\/"},"modified":"2022-02-06T22:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T07:30:00","slug":"rain-records-racked-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/rain-records-racked-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Rain records racked up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A somewhat wetter and snowier 2021 rolled into a record-setting amount of rainfall in January, a trend that shows signs of continuing, with heavy rain predicted this week.<\/p>\n<p>Warm temperatures contributed to the heavy rain, said National Weather Service Juneau meteorologist Kayla Tinker.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In January, the temperature should be closer to freezing, so usually it would fall as snow,&rdquo; Tinker said in a phone interview. &ldquo;This time last year, we were experiencing those really cold temperatures. We&rsquo;re experiencing heavy rainfall instead of heavy snowfall.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">| January 2022 Climate Summary |<br \/>Most areas had a wetter than normal Jan, with Juneau Airport having its wettest Jan on record! A combo of deep snow from Dec &#038; snowstorms at the start of Jan lead to rooftop snow loading impacts.<br \/>Find more here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/w7x16fiNnb\">https:\/\/t.co\/w7x16fiNnb<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h3Ly1Bkd8G\">pic.twitter.com\/h3Ly1Bkd8G<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWS Juneau (@NWSJuneau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSJuneau\/status\/1489852609036914690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 5, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The airport monitoring station received 12.29 inches of rain, the heaviest on record, according to the NWS, and more than double the average amount of slightly more than 6 inches. That&rsquo;s expected to continue this week, as Juneau is forecast to see another atmospheric river, or stream of high moisture leading to heavy rainfall.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;(The atmosphere river&rsquo;s) pretty much coming from the south and it&rsquo;s moving northward. That&rsquo;s why when we get them we usually get rain,&rdquo; Tinker said. &ldquo;Juneau will probably end up being wetter than most places.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When atmospheric rivers come from Hawaii, Tinker said, they&rsquo;re sometimes known as a Pineapple Express.<\/p>\n<p>The airport set another record on Feb. 5, according to NWS social media, setting a historical precipitation record of 1.62 inches for rainfall on Feb. 5, beating that date&rsquo;s previous record of 1.02 inches set in 1954.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">| Annual Climate Summary for 2021 |<br \/>Which weather events do you remember from this past year? Here is a list of a few that stood out to us! View the full annual climate summary and data here: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/i2fGPJFVmV\">https:\/\/t.co\/i2fGPJFVmV<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jHv6tLh5AT\">pic.twitter.com\/jHv6tLh5AT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWS Juneau (@NWSJuneau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSJuneau\/status\/1490231148819009536?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 6, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>Another year, another record<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Across Southeast Alaska, 2021 brought increased average daily temperatures, including Juneau, according to the NWS&rsquo; annual report. However, while Juneau&rsquo;s daily average highs increased, its daily average lows decreased, offsetting a visible increase in daily average temperatures, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Klawock Airport set the state record for the earliest 75 degree weather on April 18,&rdquo; Tinker said.<\/p>\n<p>Juneau and Ketchikan both saw increases in precipitation, according to the NWS report. Juneau had 76.53 inches of rain, falling between a 1991 record of 85.15 inches and an average of 66.99 inches. In colder weather, 137 inches of snow fell in 2021, short of a 1994 record of 212.1 inches but well above the average of 87.6 inches.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The temperatures at some points during the year were well below normal,&rdquo; Tinker said. &ldquo;In December it was so cold all the time, so we got snow.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rainfall coming<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>While this week is expected to have heavy rainfall beginning Tuesday and running through Wednesday or Thursday, Tinker said there is a possibility of snow as soon as the weekend. NWS social media issued a flood watch for Juneau from Wednesday through Thursday.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An atmospheric river aims at the panhandle Wednesday. A Flood Watch has been issued for portions of the panhandle. See graphics below for more details and stay tuned for forecast updates this week. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/akwx?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#akwx<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/AtmosphericRiver?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#AtmosphericRiver<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EXlBK8zmQ0\">pic.twitter.com\/EXlBK8zmQ0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NWS Juneau (@NWSJuneau) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NWSJuneau\/status\/1490855408054927366?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 8, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Other highs and lows from 2021 for Juneau include a high of 83 degrees on June 28, and a low of -5 on Feb. 10. These temperatures are 5 degrees warmer and 7 degrees colder respectively than the average for Juneau, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>There were also 249 days with some form of light or heavier rain, 102 days with light or heavier snow, and precisely 1 day with a thunderstorm, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8226; Contact reporter Michael S. Lockett at (757) 621-1197 or mlockett@juneauempire.com.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>January was an outstandingly moist month. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":81573,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":9,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[75,48],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-81572","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news","tag-local-news","tag-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81572","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/81573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81572"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=81572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}