Powerful winds blasted Southcentral Alaska for the second weekend in a row, with gusts topping 70 mph in parts of Anchorage and the Matanuska-Susitna Borough.
National Weather Service meteorologist Carson Jones said the winds were less severe than last weekend’s Mat-Su storm, which prompted a local disaster declaration. But they were still significant.
“It wasn’t quite as strong as the previous event,” Jones said. “But Palmer was still reporting winds near or above 80 miles an hour. And then Anchorage had some observations at JBER and Ted Stevens [Anchorage International Airport] that were above 70 miles an hour.”…