Up to 7 inches of snow expected through Tuesday

More snow is coming to Fairbanks starting Sunday, the National Weather Service weather forecast on Friday. The greater Fairbanks area could see an average of six or seven inches of snow, said Fairbanks meteorologist Andrew Stokes. “The east side will get a little more than the west side,” Stokes said.

“We will see a decent bit of snow, so breaking out snow shovels is a good idea.” Unlike the recent small amount of snow the area received between Wednesday night and Friday morning, the three-day system won’t include an adhesive-like freezing mix. “We are expecting this to be 100% snow, more normal snow,” Stokes said on Friday.



“It will be fairly typical for our area, it won’t be super fluffy or super wet.” Stokes said the snow is driven by a low-pressure system from the Bering Sea heading toward the Seward Peninsula. Temperature highs from Sunday through Tuesday will be in the mid-teens to low 20s.

Lows are expected to be in the teens on Sunday night, below 10 degrees on Monday before dipping back to near-zero on Tuesday night. The last snow system that passed through the Fairbanks area brought a wintry mix of freezing drizzle and about an inch of snow. “The moisture that we were dealing with for this event was just above this temperature, making it difficult for snow to form, leading to widespread freezing drizzle,” the National Weather Service stated via social media.

“This mostly led to a thicker coat of frost on cars and a crunchy coating on snow..