What is the weather conditions in Sitka, Alaska?

(Smudgy Question) Weather in the West

• Hi Smudgy ! I owe you a question from two weeks ago. Here it is. (If you don't have time for this question, please let me know and I'll open it to other researchers.) What is the coolest HIGH temperature for Monday (tomorrow) in these states: California Oregon Washington Alaska Idaho Montana Utah Nevada New Mexico Wyoming Colorado Texas A 5-star answer would be in this format: Alaska Mount Sitka 68 degrees California San Francisco 73 degrees Texas Amarillo Airport 84 degrees etc. etc. Please note accuracy is not critical. Temperatures can be approximate, and any reporting weather station (not necessarily a city) can be used. All comments greatly appreciated ! Thanks. ron

• Answer:

  Hi ron, I hope you find the following answer satisfactory; if not, please request a clarification before rating and I will do my best to clear things up. I started this search with a simple <"United States" "high temperature"> search, which quickly got me to a few web sites of interest, including the Weather Underground (http://www.wunderground.com) and the National Weather Service (http://www.noaa.gov). I stuck with the latter since the information on the maps there (e.g. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/forecasts/graphical/sectors/pacsouthwest.php ) made it clear that I was looking at predicted high temperatures for that day. (Weather Underground had a very useful chart listing high and low temperatures, but it was totally uncler whether that was current high and low temperatures in an area, predicted highs and lows, recent highs and lows, etc.) Alaska, however, was still nowhere to be found. In searching the NOAA page for the missing state, I came across the following document: http://www.arh.noaa.gov/wmofcst.php?wmo=ASAK68PAFC&type=public which seems to give the highs and lows for all sorts of assorted places in Alaska. However, it only gives the high temperatures for the previous day. So I thought I would wait until today to get the temperature for Alaska, and then try to find the corresponding page for the other states in your list (since the text format and depth of information seems much more browsable and precise than the maps did). However, it seems that for all the other states, the tables were either out of date, unavailable, or simply nonexistent. It was quite frustrating. Consistency does not seem to be a hallmark of the National Weather Service in this regard. My esteem of meteorologists has gone up significantly. So the information below is gleaned primarily from the National Weather Service's high/low temperature maps for July 12, 2004, with Alaska's information being from the Temperature and Precipitation Chart of July 13, 2004. California San Francisco 67 degrees F. Oregon Brookings 64 Washington Port Angeles 73 Alaska Barrow Airport 40 Idaho Bonners Ferry 82 Montana Lewiston 80 Utah Cedar City 93 Nevada Austin 87 New Mexico Santa Fe 88 Wyoming Yellowstone 74 Colorado Leadville 75 Texas Alpine 88 I hope you find this information meets your needs! If not, please request a clarification and I will do my best to remedy the situation. Thanks, smudgy.