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Marine Weather and Tides Eek, AK Version 3.4

NOTICE 12/16/2019 NOAA is having trouble with requests that include wind gusts. I am posting graphs without wind gusts until it gets fixed. 10/9/2019 Updated the Marine Zones. 9/4/2019 Fixed the weather maps due to NOAA moving them. 7/25/2019 New feature in the Airports section gives a link to 5 minute updates for data reports.

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Sunrise 9:44AM

Sunset 4:36PM

Monday January 20, 2020 9:57 AM AKST (18:57 UTC)

Moonrise 5:57AM

Moonset 12:58PM

Illumination 20%

NOTE: Some of the data on this page has not been verified and should be used with that in mind. It may and occasionally will, be wrong. The tide reports are by xtide and are NOT FOR NAVIGATION.

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7 Day Forecast for Marine Location Near Eek, AK

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FXAK69 PAFG 201210 AFDAFG

Northern Alaska Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Fairbanks AK 310 AM AKST Mon Jan 20 2020

Synopsis . Mostly clear across the state again this morning. A band of stratus over the Arctic Coast continues to produce a few flurries, and some patchy fog, but very localized. A decaying front moving onto the West Coast this morning will bring some snow showers to St Lawrence Island, the Bering Strait Coast, and the Lower Yukon Delta this morning and into the Western Interior later today. The front will push east into the Western Interior this afternoon bringing some flurries or light snow to those areas and will continue to weaken over the Central Interior tonight and Wednesday. The clouds and flurries associated with this front will bring a brief warm up to the Central and Eastern Interior tonight and Wednesday before another cold airmass moves back in over the interior by late in the week.

DISCUSSION. Models . Good run to run continuity continues with the 20/00Z solutions initializing well against the 00z surface analysis and the 20/06z model solutions verifying well against the 06z surface analysis. Solutions remain in good agreement to around 72 hours before we see changes that may impact the forecast. Surface highs in the Upper Tanana Valley and Upper Yukon Flats continue to initialize about 5 mb high than the solutions, while the lows to the west are about 2 mb weaker than the solutions. Temperatures continue to be a challenge with local cloud or lack there of playing havoc on temperature forecasts. Will continue to make some minor adjustments locally to the temperatures to match with current temperatures and trends.

Aloft at 500 mb, a strong and deep longwave trough centered over the eastern Bering Sea will slowly nudge south and east through the middle of the week and will be centered along a Wrangel Island to Fairbanks line Wednesday and along a Point Barrow to Anchorage line Thursday and Friday. An upper level ridge will remain over the Yukon through the period. A second upper level ridge will build north and east into the Central Bering Sea beginning Wednesday and will continue to build through the weekend. A cold airmass will spill south and east out of Siberia into Alaska beginning Wednesday and will continue through the weekend. 850 mb temperatures at Fairbanks will fall from around 15 below on Wednesday to around 20 below on Friday and will drop to around 25 below by Saturday. A deep upper level low both at 500 mb as well as 700 mb and 850 mb will move north into the northern Gulf of Alaska near Yakutat on Friday and will bring significant moisture north and west into the Eastern and Central Interior which will overrun the deep arctic airmass that will be in place over the Eastern and Central Interior. The overunning will produce snow over the Central and Eastern Interior with perhaps heavy snow developing along a deformation zone that will set up north and west of Fairbanks on Friday and Saturday. Will need to monitor for significant snow potential over the Central and Eastern Interior Friday and next weekend.

Arctic Coast and Brooks Range . Some stratus, flurries, and patchy dense fog along the Central coast, otherwise mostly clear. Winds will be swinging around from south to northeast as the trough of low pressure moves offshore, then dissipates with high pressure over the northeast pushing back to the southwest. Low pressure will build east over the Arctic Plain tonight and Tuesday, then lift northeast offshore Tuesday evening.

West Coast and Western Interior . A weak front continues to push on shore and into the Western Interior and will bring some flurries or light snow to into the Norton Sound and Chukchi Sea/Kotzebue Sound Region today. Expect gusty winds along the coast along with scattered snow showers and light winds to prevail inland. Temperatures will warm slightly with the cloud and light snow.

Central and Eastern Interior . Mostly clear continues with a few high clouds moving through. Temperatures warming slightly today. The Tanana Valley Jet has weekend overnight but is expected to pick up again later today with 15 to 30 mph winds expected. The remainder of the area will have light and variable winds through Tuesday. Snow Tuesday night and Wednesday is expected to accumulate around 1 inch over the Central and Eastern Interior.

Extended forecast for days 4 to 7 . Cold air moving back in from the northwest will push temperatures down. A decaying front will be exiting the forecast area to the northeast, but an easterly wave will be pushing west an north spreading moisture into the southeast Interior and eventually the Central Interior late Thursday and Friday setting up an overrunning snow event for much of the Central and Eastern Interior. At this time computer models continue to indicate that the heaviest snow is expected to fall along and south of a line from Old Crow to Fort Yukon to Tanana and north of a Eagle to Fairbanks to Lake Minchumina line with a deformation zone expected to set up over this area. Strong and gusty northeast winds are expected over the highway summits over the Interior and combined with falling snow will likely produce limited visibilities in blowing and drifting snow as well as low wind chill values especially over the Interior highway summits. Snow will diminish slowly on Saturday and will bring cooler temperatures for the weekend.

Coastal Hazard Potential Days 3 and 4 . None.

AFG WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES. Brisk Wind Advisory for PKZ210-PKZ220.

CCC JAN 20

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Weather Reporting Stations

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Airport Reports

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Airport	Dist	Age	Wind kt	Visibility	Sky/Weather	Temp	DewPt	Humidity	Pressure
Bethel, Bethel Airport, AK	49 mi	65 min	N 0	10.00 mi	Overcast	8°F	5°F	87%	999.2 hPa

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Tide / Current Tables for Apokak Creek entrance, Alaska

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Tide / Current Tables for Kuskokwak Creek entrance, Alaska

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