Before you know it, its fall

A blanket of fresh snow covers the Granite peaks under a cloudy, autumn sky. Undergrowth is already changing its colors with leaves not far behind. The long range forecast calls for above freezing temperatures and continued sporadic rainfalls. While temperatures remain warm, weather systems will continue to bring in intermittent rain showers. According to the US National Weather Service out of Fairbanks, while the northern Gulf or the Southeast Alaska panhandle normally have rainier conditions, a ridge over the Gulf of Alaska has deflected the atmospheric river towards Northern Alaska, drenching the Interior. Nome set a record daily rainfall of 1.01 inches September 3. Their last record was .90 inches in 1949. In case no one noticed, our first killing frost was September 3, when Delta officially dropped to 28 degrees Fahrenheit. Those in low lying areas and along the rivers recorded lower temperatures, effectively ending the gardening season.

Photo by Erin Trainor

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