There were some winter wonderland moments in the snowy quiet on the empty roads around Petersburg on Monday and Tuesday night.
Petersburg set a daily snowfall record Monday with 7.8 inches, but the early snowfall appears to be an outlier from expectations of a drier and colder winter to come, according to the National Weather Service in Juneau.
The snowstorm continued through Tuesday, accumulating 15 inches of snow across the two days.
No flights landed at the airport on Tuesday, and roads in town were somewhat treacherous until snow abated and plowing caught up by Wednesday morning.
Tuesday would have been a snowfall record too, if not for the 9.9 inches that fell on Dec. 9 back in 1946, explained Jeff Garmon, Meteor...
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