'Life-threatening' storm approaching Alaska

[troy2000]

I hope all our Alaskan members are battening down the hatches....

A rapidly intensifying powerful storm was approaching the west coast of Alaska late Monday and could become "one of the worst on record," the National Weather Service said in an alert.

The alert, issued by the NWS in Fairbanks at 10:37 p.m. AKST (2:37 a.m. ET Tuesday), said the "extremely dangerous" storm was 600 miles southwest of Shemya at the end of the Aleutian Islands.

It is forecast to move to just west of the Bering Strait by Tuesday night and into the southern Chukchi Sea on Wednesday.

The storm would likely be "life-threatening ... one of the worst on record," the service said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45204152...-alaska-coast/

[michael pierzga]

Hurricane forecast on the coast. Not sure which NOAA data bouy is best for watching the storm pass.....perhaps Buoy 46072.

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/station_page.php?station=46072

http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/

[cor]

It was just another winter storm. Really not that special.

http://www.rudstrom.blogspot.com/

Look here for a personal account.

C.O.