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01/08/2026

🚨🌧️🌀 SOUTHEAST ALASKA WEATHER ALERT: THE SKY HAS CHOSEN VIOLENCE 🌀🌧️🚨

An atmospheric river is sliding into the Panhandle late Thursday through Saturday, bringing snow, rain, wind, and a personal vendetta against storm drains.

What’s on the menu:
• Snow that immediately regrets its life choices and turns into rain
• 1–4 inches of rain (locally: more, because of course)
• Deep snowpack = clogged drains = “Why is there a lake here?”
• Creeks rising fast and hills thinking about moving

🌬️ Wind Update
South winds 25–35 mph with gusts up to 60 mph, strong enough to:
• Yeet your trash cans
• Reorganize your yard
• Cancel electricity
• Test every knot you tied while saying “that’s probably fine”

🪁 DO. NOT. FLY. A. KITE.
This is not kite weather.
This is “your kite files for independence and moves to Prince of Wales Island” weather.
Also, power lines exist. Let’s not meet them professionally.

👨‍🚒 KFD Survival Tips
• Clear storm drains.
• Tie down anything you like or would miss
• Expect flooding, power outages, and bad decisions by gravity
• If water starts going places it shouldn’t—call early

We’ll be out there riding the chaos so you don’t have to.
Stay dry, stay grounded, and keep your kites indoors. 😉

🌧️🧯

01/05/2026

WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY:

* WHAT...Snow expected. Total snow accumulations of 2 to 4 inches. Winds gusting as high as 50 mph.

* WHERE...Ketchikan Gateway Borough and Annette Island.

* WHEN...Until 3 PM AKST this afternoon.

* IMPACTS...Travel by land, sea, and air will be difficult. The hazardous conditions could impact the evening commute. Gusty winds could bring down tree branches.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS....Precipitation will initially start as all snow, before quickly changing over to rain as warm air surges northward through Monday afternoon. Areas at elevation may receive additional locally higher snow accumulations.

01/05/2026

City and KPU offices will be closed today due to snow conditions. Library will also be closed. Streets, Police, Fire, will be operating as normal. Trash collection will be running normal route. If they cannot access your cans they will then pick up tomorrow.

01/05/2026

Please post any closures or postponements your business or organization may have because of the storm in the comments below. And we will amplify your message.

01/05/2026

Be careful driving today!

🚨❄️ WEATHER WINS TODAY ❄️🚨01/05/2026

Due to today’s “oh no, not again” Southeast Alaska weather, the following will be CLOSED TODAY:

🏛️ All City offices
⚡ All KPU offices
🏫 Ketchikan Gateway Borough School District

Translation:
• Snow showed up
• Wind got loud
• Rain threatened everyone’s morale
• The weather chose violence

If you were planning to go outside — congratulations, you are now working from your couch.
If you were hoping school was still on — sorry, parents… today’s lesson is Weather Math (snow + rain + wind = nope).

Essential services will still be operating, and emergency crews are out doing their thing. Everyone else:
✔️ Stay home
✔️ Stay safe
✔️ Stay off the roads if you can
✔️ Put the coffee on

Southeast Alaska remains undefeated. ☕❄️🌬️

01/04/2026

Snow removal update from Mayor Beth Weldon.

12/27/2025

Weather alert!
This Afternoon
Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 20. Southeast wind around 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. Total daytime snow accumulation of 4 to 7 inches possible.

Tonight
Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Temperature rising to around 25 by 4am. East wind 15 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 35 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 6 to 9 inches possible.

Sunday
Snow before 3pm, then rain and snow. The rain and snow could be heavy at times. High near 32. Southeast wind 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 5 to 8 inches possible.

Sunday Night
Rain and snow. The rain and snow could be heavy at times. Low around 31. Southeast wind 25 to 30 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

Monday
Rain and snow. The rain and snow could be heavy at times. High near 37. Southeast wind 15 to 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%.

12/27/2025

❄️🚨 SOUTHEAST ALASKA WEATHER ALERT: THIS STORM WOKE UP AND CHOSE CHAOS 🚨❄️

Heads up Petersburg, Prince of Wales, Wrangell, and Ketchikan —
A large storm system is rolling in this weekend and it has main character energy.

What the forecast says:
• 6–9 inches of snow
• Winds up to 40 mph

What it means:
• Snow blowing sideways
• Roads doing whatever they want
• That one hill suddenly becoming a personality test

🕘 Saturday | 9 AM – 9 PM
Also known as:
• “I should’ve gone yesterday”
• “This looked plowed five minutes ago”
• “Why is everyone driving 3 mph but still sliding?”

🌧️➡️❄️➡️🌧️➡️❄️
Expect snow, rain, slush, freezing rain, and betrayal.
The rain/snow line will move north, south, pause for coffee, then change its mind.

🚗 If you absolutely must travel:
• Flashlight (it’ll be dark at noon anyway)
• Food & water (for when traffic becomes a group activity)
• A full tank of gas
• Confidence, but not too much confidence

🏠 Before it hits:
• Secure loose items
• Turn the heat on
• Check your drains
• Make peace with your driveway — it belongs to winter now

📢 Community reminders:
• Help your neighbors
• Clear fire hydrants
• Give plows and emergency vehicles space
• If the road “looks fine,” that’s when it’s lying to you

More updates coming — this storm has sequels planned.

Slow down. Stay warm.
And please… don’t test gravity this weekend. 😉

❄️🧯

12/25/2025

Thank you for welcoming us into your cars, homes, and workplaces every day. We’re proud to be part of this community and grateful for the trust you place in us to inform, entertain, and bring us together.

This season is about connection, kindness, and looking out for one another, values that run deep here in Southeast Alaska. From our radio family to yours, we wish you a warm, peaceful Christmas and a safe, joyful holiday season.

12/19/2025

36 Hours of Christmas Music Starts at 6am Christmas Eve

We’re filling Ketchikan's holiday with nonstop Christmas favorites, 36 hours of the songs you love, the memories you cherish, and the comfort that only hometown radio can bring.

Special Feature:
The Juneau Symphony’s Christmas Cheer Concert
Christmas Eve at 8pm
Encore Christmas Morning at 8am

Let the music, the community, and the season wrap around you.

From our family to yours, we wish you peace, joy, this Christmas here in Ketchikan.

11/29/2025

Small Business Saturday hits differently in Southeast Alaska. These shops aren’t just places we buy things, they’re owned by our neighbors, our friends, the people standing next to us at the rink, the grocery store, the parade, the food drive.

When you spend a few dollars here, it stays here.
It pays a local employee.
It keeps a dream alive.
It helps a family put dinner on the table.
It keeps the lights on for the businesses that keep our community vibrant and strong.

Look Local First.
Because when we support local businesses, we’re investing in the heart of Ketchikan, and building the kind of community we’re proud to call home.

Happy Small Business Saturday, Ketchikan. Let’s show up for each other.

11/28/2025

This summer in Southeast Alaska? Let’s just say Mother Nature forgot to send the memo. So, we’re giving you a Second Summer with Alaska Airlines! Congratulations to Sherill Baxter! Sherill wins four tickets from Alaska Airlines to trade rain for rays!