Weather

With winter quickly approaching, many homes are unsafe. Two homes, Kotzebue’s dock, roads, bridges and subsistence camps were destroyed.

At least one home collapsed into Kotzebue Sound during Tuesday’s flooding, which forced more than 80 people to evacuate.

The front originates from a low pressure system that’s currently hanging over the western gulf near Kodiak.

High Wind Warnings are in effect for the southern panhandle and Baranof Island, but Juneau will be a bit calmer.

The most intense rainfall will begin on Friday evening and continue through Saturday afternoon. Rain is expected to lighten up after that, but it will remain wet through Sunday. 

Last week’s fierce storms aren’t unprecedented, but longtime residents say they aren’t all that normal either.

Rainfall saturating the ground, potentially triggered by wind, are common culprits in landslides in Southeast Alaska.

Some residents report that the flooding is worse than Typhoon Merbok, and that it rivals this year’s historic breakup floods on the Kuskokwim.

Canadian wildfires are producing just enough smoke to start hazing up the skies in the southern panhandle.

Heavy rainfall has saturated the ground, elevating the risk of landslides, and rivers and creeks are rising, especially in the northern panhandle.