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A former coworker of mine who lived in Ketchikan for many years told me that Ketchikan doesn't rain any more often than Juneau, it just rains harder more often. Therefore, wetter on average. I don't know about that. I'm thinking it's probably drier in Juneau during winter, when temps more often drop below freezing.
The place I'm at in Puna averages almost exactly the same rainfall per year as Ketchikan, but if you measured it in terms of how much time it's raining it would fall well short of Juneau and Ketchikan.
Wasn't there articles from earlier this year saying Southeast was in a drought that would last for years? Or something like that?
Okay... The story was from this spring, but the drought was from 2016 to 2019: https://www.ktoo.org/2022/03/04/extr...theast-alaska/
Wasn't there articles from earlier this year saying Southeast was in a drought that would last for years? Or something like that?
Okay... The story was from this spring, but the drought was from 2016 to 2019: https://www.ktoo.org/2022/03/04/extr...theast-alaska/
A drought forecast to last many years? I don't remember that. The general feeling is that climate change will make SE even wetter.
A former coworker of mine who lived in Ketchikan for many years told me that Ketchikan doesn't rain any more often than Juneau, it just rains harder more often. Therefore, wetter on average. I don't know about that. I'm thinking it's probably drier in Juneau during winter, when temps more often drop below freezing.
The place I'm at in Puna averages almost exactly the same rainfall per year as Ketchikan, but if you measured it in terms of how much time it's raining it would fall well short of Juneau and Ketchikan.
There's an old joke in Juneau: A cruise ship tourist ducks into a souvenir shop, sopping wet from the rain and asks, "Does it always rain like this?"
The clerk deadpans, "No. Sometimes it snows."
I think that's where KTN and JNU really differ as far as the psychological effects of rain. It snows more in Juneau. Yeah it's still precipitation but at least its not rain. And since you made the Puna comparison, yes, I agree. I remember one month in Juneau where it rained a half inch or whatever, mostly in the form of a light drizzle/mist that seemed to go on 24/7 for the entire dreary month. In Puna, we can get a half inch of rain in 30 minutes, and then it's sunny the rest of the week. So measuring precipitation in yearly totals doesn't really tell the whole story.
A former coworker of mine who lived in Ketchikan for many years told me that Ketchikan doesn't rain any more often than Juneau, it just rains harder more often. Therefore, wetter on average. I don't know about that. I'm thinking it's probably drier in Juneau during winter, when temps more often drop below freezing.
The place I'm at in Puna averages almost exactly the same rainfall per year as Ketchikan, but if you measured it in terms of how much time it's raining it would fall well short of Juneau and Ketchikan.
Ketchikan and BC’s Prince Rupert evoke memories of constant grayness and almost-constant rain. There was a large stick posted in one of those towns stating how many inches of rain they had had that year, and it was only late May. Something about the record so far having been 300”???? But that number includes snowfall in equivalent inches of rain.
Ketchikan and BC’s Prince Rupert evoke memories of constant grayness and almost-constant rain. There was a large stick posted in one of those towns stating how many inches of rain they had had that year, and it was only late May. Something about the record so far having been 300”???? But that number includes snowfall in equivalent inches of rain.
That's right, Rupert's climate is basically the same as Ketchikan's. Constant grayness sums it up nicely.
Ketchikan has the big rain stick. I believe their record yearly rainfall is not much over 200 inches. A lot of consistency there, with their average around 155-160.
That's right, Rupert's climate is basically the same as Ketchikan's. Constant grayness sums it up nicely.
Ketchikan has the big rain stick. I believe their record yearly rainfall is not much over 200 inches. A lot of consistency there, with their average around 155-160.
Your memory of the record is probably much better than mine. I visited AK in 2004 and 2006. Experienced the crazy heat wave in June, 90+ degrees some of those days!
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