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Unique plane helps hunt winter storms

...One way, according to meteorologists, is sending a hurricane...is used in real-time by meteorologists to improve and extend forecasts...Jack Parrish, a flight meteorologist and NOAA manager for the...special code understood by meteorologists. The instruments cost about...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-02-20/unique-plane-helps-hunt-winter-storms
State
UAS miner training program prompted by industry demand

...Garrison, who works in Kensington's assay laboratory, said he majored in physics in college, when he wanted to become a meteorologist."The science background really helped me a lot with this job," said Garrison. "I don't have a chemistry degree...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-19/uas-miner-training-program-prompted-ind
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4-8 inches of snow expected overnight, this morning

...warning for Thursday evening and Friday morning.Local meteorologists expect between 4 and 8 inches of snowfall from 6 p.m...reported 8 inches downtown, according to Warning Coordination Meteorologist Joel Curtis."It seems like for this particular November...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2011-11-23/4-8-inches-snow-expected-overnight-morn
Local
National Weather Service plans furloughs

...union representative in Fairbanks said.Furloughs around the country that will affect the 200 employees in Alaska, said meteorologist Jim Brader, a representative of the National Weather Service Employees Organization.The furloughs are planned to save...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-05-01/national-weather-service-plans-furlough
State
After wet weekend, sunny weather beckons in Southeast

...week of sunshine and high temperatures above 50 degrees Fahrenheit, if the National Weather Service's forecast holds.Meteorologist Nicole Hannon of the Juneau Forecast Office said Sunday and early Monday may see some continuing showers, but as the new...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-05/after-wet-weekend-sunny-weather-beckons
Local
Interior Alaska sees record-breaking low temps

...miles south of town. It was 6 below at Smith Lake on the University of Alaska Fairbanks."It was pretty chilly," said meteorologist Melissa Keller with the National Weather Service in Fairbanks.In addition to the record cold Sunday morning, many places...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-04-30/interior-alaska-sees-record-breaking-lo
State
'Cleanup Day' Saturday in Juneau

...current forecast for Saturday holds true.By Saturday, the sunny weather of this week will give way to clouds and rain, meteorologist Jim Truitt said Wednesday."Unfortunately, what you have taking place is a deterioration that's going to be beginning...

http://juneauempire.com/local/2013-05-08/cleanup-day-saturday-juneau
Local
Ice storm stretches from Anchorage to Barrow

FAIRBANKS - Meteorologists described Monday's widespread rainfall as an "epoch winter...resulting in widespread rain from Anchorage to Barrow, said meteorologist Brad Sipperley. "It started raining at 5:30 a.m. and it's...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/112310/sta_740466346.shtml
News
Slack tide: Of latkes and eggnog

...Chinese food grabs hold - yup, it's definitely December again. And while Christmas may be in the air, in a phenomenon meteorologists call "holiday inversion," here on the ground some of us are already celebrating our own seasonal excuse to consume salt...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2012-12-09/slack-tide-latkes-and-eggnog
Neighbors
Study: Distant rural areas may feel cities' heat

...Europe and the Mediterranean, according to the study published Sunday in the scientific journal Nature Climate Change.Meteorologists long have known that cities are warmer than rural areas, with the heat of buildings and cars, along with asphalt and roofs...

http://juneauempire.com/state/2013-01-28/study-distant-rural-areas-may-feel-citi
State

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