Alaskans are braced for the landfall of a storm that may produce hurricane-force winds. The storm is tracking for a direct strike on Nome. The storm looks so bad that the National Weather Service had to reach back to a storm that hit in November of 1974.
If you’re not an avid arctic watcher, it might be hard to know where to turn for information about the storm’s progress. Here’s a quick guide to keeping up with the situation.
The National Weather Service provides general info on their main page that you want to keep an eye on.
The Department of Homeland Security also puts out a situation report on Alaska each day, which you can read here.
Local and national news organizations are tracking the storm. Try the Fairbanks @newsminer, the Fairbanks paper, which has been keeping up a steady stream of tweets. The Alaska Dispatch is another excellent local news outlet. KTUU is a good Anchorage television station to keep an eye on. And of course, the Anchorage Daily News is a standby.
Newsminer also provides an excellent list of webcams through which you can watch the storm make landfall.
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