The National Weather Service in Anchorage says that the forecast calls for snow and blowing snow across the Western Kenai Peninsula from Friday morning through Saturday morning.
According to NWS forecasters that spoke to KSRM, periods of light snow are expected to develop from west to east across the Western Kenai Peninsula starting Friday morning. “So one thing we know for certain is there’s going to be light snow. It looks like we have a very high confidence in that. It’s just that we’re seeing signs that maybe this narrower band of heavier snow that may develop, but the placement of that is highly uncertain at this time. Where that band sets up could be higher snowfall amounts than where it just remains a lighter snow. The timing on it starts around 6-7 a.m. So basically just in time for the Friday commute. It looks to snow a good portion of the day, but everything is in high uncertainty on where the place of where the heaviest band sets up. Right now, I think it’s just a general 1 to 3 inches around the area, but where the heavier band sets up totals could eclipse the 3 inches and could be more than that.”
A band of snow has developed over the Sterling and Soldotna area Friday morning, causing light to occasionally moderate snow in the core of the band. The band is expected to stay nearly stationary. As upper level support approaches this evening, more widespread, and slightly heavier intensity light snow will overspread much of the western Kenai Peninsula. Snowfall intensity
will gradually diminish from midnight onward, but may take until mid-morning Saturday to fully dissipate. Storm total accumulations of up to 5 inches are expected through Saturday morning. The higher amounts are expected where the snow persists longest, so most areas can expect closer to the 2 inch amount.