Picture This Alaska

Alright Bridget, thank you so much for saying that you can hear me now. Awesome. So, This was going back to 2022, December. And a lot of people reported seeing that in the Anchorage area, I just thought it was neat and I would share it with you here on Picture Alaska. This is the Meteor over Anchorage scene from the hillside area. David Johnson caught that also on that December day. Sometimes we don't get a chance to show you all the videos that we want to, but I did think I would rehash them because, So, this one was from Amanda Berger. Look how bright it gets, just for a brief second or two in the Anchorage area. So, yes, I'm sure if you were out walking your dog or you were out late at night, you would have said, whoa, what was that? Now, we're going to get to some photos. This is a beautiful, more recent shot of Redoubt Volcano, the sunset going on, and a Rory Spurlock out of the Kenai area showing that to us and beautiful shot of, oh my gosh, look at this, Spiral Aurora, and this is out of the Wiseman area, shared to Channel 2 and to Alaska's new source by Jacqueline Mollock out of, as I said, Wiseman, but we have had some Aurora activity and still some dark enough nights that you can see them show up, but wow, that is quite the capture. And then the Anchorage area here this week, we saw that snowfall, but Therese Foley was driving down, turning an arm, coming back to Anchorage from Girdwood, and she caught the cloud that was just descending on the Anchorage area with that snow squall. So that is really cool looking, but some people might not have appreciated the look of that cloud. Now, check out the Herring Row Harvest, that was the season here and the Herring boats were out into the Sitka area, Southeast Alaska, so I'm sure folks were feasting on that in the Sitka area and what a beautiful sunset they had, Tauna Turner sharing that with us, and that is some of those conditions that those fishermen were in. So they have had a nice run of weather in Southeast Alaska, but things will be changing for them as well as other places. Now, we're going to show you some other videos, this was a blizzard that they had in the January timeframe out of Nome, but still there's kind of a beauty to the blizzard, the sun hanging low in the sky, those colors are just amazing. So even when we have storm systems and our weather is inclement, we do have some beauty to it. Here's a look at some of those Bear Valley clouds. This is a video that I really It is really cool, so you can see the clouds moving in and the sun kind of moving out, but thank you to Jennifer for sending that in and sharing it with us. Also springtime, check out that avalanche, this is out of the Valdez area, and this was April of 2022. So April, a very volatile month, we are seeing that with several snowstorms that are moving in. Also, when the sun is out, So even though we do have to be careful. Hey, this guy's asking, is it spring yet? I need some spring, man, in my life. Thank you to David Neal from the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, sending that in. Now for some videos, look at the sunset, just as that boat was making its way through the inlet. Brian'sending that in. We have some other beautiful videos to share with you as well as photos, but there we are back to the beginning, so I'll just leave it there. This is just the first of what we hope will be many segments for, picture this, Alaska, for the Anchorage area. So I hope that you have and again, stay safe even with this spring, winter weather that we're having. Yeah. Oh, I don't know what to do yet. Did you hear it?