Recent weeks have been unusually dry across most of the region, as the main storm track since Ex-typhoon Halong moved through the area in mid October, has stayed quite far to the south, in the Bering Sea and even into the Gulf of Alaska.
Now, pretty much all of our region has a little bit of snow cover, but in most areas, it's quite thin and not completely covering the ground vegetation. The exceptions appear to be in areas where periodically, cold north winds blow across the still open ocean, producing snow showers and more significant accumulation, and this includes St. Lawrence Island and the northern Seward Peninsula coast.
Now in these areas, snow cover looks to be more substantial. While there's some suggestions in the weather models that weak weather fronts will push into the area to bring rounds of light snow, there's nothing yet to indicate when a turn to more stormy weather will occur.
