Anchorage just broke its seasonal snowfall record,

[Blue_In_AK]

133.6 inches, and it's still coming down in big fluffy globs. Wish we could share some with you.

[liberal N proud]

1. Now that it's April, you can keep it.

I think it was complete opposite of Cleveland.

[spanone]

2. be safe....i bet it's beautiful.

[Arctic Dave]

3. YAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!

Where is my trophy!!!!

[Drew Richards]

4. Photos please! lots and lots of photos

[Blue_In_AK]

9. I'm kind of in the middle of a project right at the moment,

but I'll try to get out and take a few pics later. We have had some (not much) melting this spring, so, of course, it doesn't look like 10 feet of snow, but there's probably still at least 3-4 feet on the ground in most places and much more where we've shoveled the driveway and such. We're all getting a little tired of it, but it is very beautiful.

Our normal snowfall is around 62 inches a year, so we've doubled that. The old record was set in 1954-55, I believe.

[roguevalley]

14. in one day in Valdez they got 42 inches. Last time I heard about them they were pushing 25

feet of snow. I saw the snow this afternoon, huge flakes. They didn't stick much but I have about 4-5 feet at my house. :0)

Some of it I pulled off my roof. A yearling moose crosses my porch to avoid the drifts and he sleeps there sometimes.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Don't you just love Alaska?

There's no place like it.

[roguevalley]

18. Its amazing. :D I got stuck in my driveway this morning. BWAHA! Serves me right.

You lose forcus for one moment and the next thing you know, YIKES!

[niyad]

5. feel free to send it to the mountains, I don't want to see it down here--the people here cannot

drive in dry weather, let alone snow.

[Brickbat]

6. Jealous. We had a third of what we usually get this year, and had a drought going into the snow

season. We've got fire warnings now, and it's only the first week in April.

[Blue_In_AK]

7. We've been told that some of our city snow dump sites

probably won't melt completely this summer. I think that makes them glaciers.

[Brickbat]

17. Ha! Awesome! Ours can linger into June...but not this year.

[scarletwoman]

8. I would gladly take ANY precipitation! We had a little light rain today - every bit helps, but it's

so dry here I think I'll be spending the entire spring and summer in fear of a forest fire. Climate change sucks.

[Generic Brad]

10. How long do you suspect it will be on the ground?

Is it possible for you to still have snow remaining from this winter by the time the next season starts? I have seen some pretty nasty winters here in Minnesota, but nothing like what you are experiencing.

[Blue_In_AK]

11. Usually the snow is pretty much gone from the ground by the end of April,

but it'll probably take a little longer this year. May is one of our warmest months, so I doubt that the snow will last past the end of May except in the city snow dumps. We were already getting quite a bit of melting before this snowfall today.

I'm always amazed by how fast spring comes on here. In Thompson Pass, down by Valdez, their average snowfall is 600 inches a season and yet when you drive through there in June, the snow is almost all gone, the flowers are blooming and everything is green and beautiful. Where does it go?

[steve2470]

12. will be there be bad flooding in Anchorage because of this ? nt

[Blue_In_AK]

13. Probably not in Anchorage.

The flooding here happens out in the Bush when the rivers break up and get clogged with ice jams. Some of the villages have had really bad problems the past couple of years.

For example, here's an article about the flooding in 2009 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173392622498125.html

Here's one from last year: http://www.adn.com/2011/05/11/1857898/kuskokwim-flood-rose-so-fast-residents.html

[roguevalley]

16. Moose Pass, Seward and Anchor Point on the Kenai Peninsula will probably be flooded.