Alaska's largest city declares a'snow emergency' following record snowfall on consecutive days.

Alaska's Anchorage In only two days, a winter storm dumped record quantities of snow on Anchorage, Alaska, with some places outside the city itself receiving more than two feet of precipitation.

On Wednesday, the biggest city in Alaska had 9 inches of snowfall in a single day, smashing the previous record. on comparison, the record on November 8 was 7.3 inches in 1982. On Thursday,

the accumulation reached 8.2 inches, surpassing the previous record of 7.1 inches that was established on November 9, 1956. With that, Anchorage received 17.2 inches of snow in two days

The snowfall totals for Wednesday at Thompson Pass and Richardson Highway east of Anchorage are seen in the figure below.

During this winter storm, 65 inches of snow fell in Thompson Pass in less than 24 hours, according to FOX Weather Winter Weather Expert Tom Niziol. According to NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information,

this 65-inch claim was less than 10 miles from the location where Alaska's 24-hour snowfall record of 78 inches was established on February 9, 1963.

From 9.5 inches in Wasilla to 15.5 inches at Butte, the snow totals from the northwest of Anchorage proper's Matanuska-Susitna Valley varied, according to the National Weather Service in Anchorage on X, the old Twitter.