Column: As the Rain Gauge Overflows... By DAVE KIFFER
Column - Commentary By DAVE KIFFER January 09, 2023 Monday Ketchikan, Alaska - In the last few years, the official arbiter of Alaska weather, the N...
Column - Commentary By DAVE KIFFER January 09, 2023 Monday Ketchikan, Alaska - In the last few years, the official arbiter of Alaska weather, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has been revising weather records across the county. Seems they want to make sure the numbers are correct, even when going back a century when the methods of collection were probably less accurate. Naturally, that is causing some changes in Ketchikan's most cherished records. Like rainfall. Nothing says Ketchikan like rainfall.