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Anchorage, Alaska – Travel across Southcentral Alaska is becoming increasingly difficult as a prolonged winter weather event brings snow, blowing snow, and sharply reduced visibility from the Kenai Peninsula through Anchorage and the Mat-Su Valleys, with impacts lasting into midweek.
According to the National Weather Service in Anchorage, Winter Weather Advisories are in effect across much of the region beginning late Sunday night. On the Kenai Peninsula, 4 to 10 inches of snow is expected overnight into Monday morning, with northerly winds gusting 20 to 30 mph causing blowing and drifting snow. The worst conditions are expected along Cook Inlet coastal areas, including the Sterling Highway from Anchor Point to Clam Gulch, Kalifornsky Beach Road, and areas from Kenai to Nikiski, where visibility may drop to a half mile or less…