Alaska Storm Weakens, But Big Chills Ahead for Lower 48

[Omaha Steve]

Source: NBC News

The remnants of a Pacific typhoon weakened Saturday after pounding Alaska’s sparsely-populated Aleutian Islands a day earlier — but the storm is expected to mean big chills for the Lower 48 this week, meteorologists said.

The strongest wind gusts were felt on Shemya, an island on the far western edge of the Aleutians, which saw 98 mph winds, the National Weather Service said. As the storm moves eastward, it is expected to help generate a high-pressure system the will send arctic air blanketing the central plains and beyond.

As it approached Alaska, forecasters said the storm could be more intense than Superstorm Sandy when it swamped the Northeast two years ago. Weather watchers in Alaska — and Twitter — labeled the storm the "Bering Bomb." But by Saturday the peak of the storm had passed, and the fiercest winds occurred where there were no people, Shaun Baines, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Anchorage, said.

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[Archae]

1. Some good news.

Gonna be here in Wisconsin the next several days!

[Old Nick]

2. Sorry, couldn't resist

Rec

[C Moon]

3. In Los Angeles, it was 93 Thursday and Friday, and 87 today. Fallummer.

[SoapBox]

4. It was not normal today but...

It was SOOOO nice...and then this evening, again, SOOOO nice...shorts, t shirt and flip-flops what could be better.

[freshwest]

5. WTF? We can't even get up to 60 here in the day and it's going into the 40s and 30s later.

At least you got a drop of 6 degrees, though. It's cooler at night, no?

Surely you guys will get a little bit of this and rain soon, least I hope so.

[C Moon]

6. Yes. At night it goes down to the low 50's.

I do appreciate not having to deal with sub-zero temps, but I'm actually not a fan of the warm/hot weather: in So Cal, we have about a month and a half of Fall and Winter. The rest is warm spring /summer weather. It's not rare to get Christmas and New Years days in the 80's.
Anyways, I hope to move up to northern California someday.

[PasadenaTrudy]

7. I'm so glad I'm out of town

right now. I'm in northern NM and it's in the low 60s during the day, 30s at night. Clear and sunny, but cool. I'll be back in L.A. on Thursday I'm loving a real Fall here for once!

[C Moon]

8. That's my kind of weather (the cooler temps).

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This week is going to be much more fall like (actually, it's 10:30am and still overcast 68).

[WorseBeforeBetter]

9. Mine too. Was like that here in NC today.

Strong sun/no wind -- I sat out in shorts to read. No mosquitoes (finally!), but the ladybugs were buzzing around like crazy.