September Weather
Id Review for Alaskan
Agricultural Areas
The following report of Seo
tember weather data was sup
plied by the Alaska Department
of Agriculture, Clyde G. Sher
man, Commissioner, from records
submitted by the Climatological
Section Center in Anchorage.
Circulation Pattern
The mean monthly circulation
pattern for September. 1951,
showed the low pressure area,
normally over the lower Kusko
kwim and Yukon River deltas
with southwesterly flow of moist
air into the Cook Inlet area and
southerly “chinook” flow of dry
air into the Tanana Valley, re
sulting in below normal precipi
tation and above normal precipi
tation and above normal tempera
tures in the Tanana Valley, and
excessive precipitation in the
Cook Inlet areas.
Rainfall, Sept. 1951
Precipitation on the Kenai Pen
insula and north to the South
eastern Matanuska Valley was
about twice the average Septem
ber amount. Anchorage received
a record breaking 5.16 inches of
rainfall, 1.79 inches of this total
falling in 24 hours on the 3rd and
4th—a storm precipitation to be
expected only about once in 20
years. Kenai reported a recoid
breaking rainfall total of 6.87
inches. In the Matanuska Valley.
Irving Newville recorded 4.24
inches; Ray Cather, 4.49 inches;
Max Sherrod, 4.25 inches; and
the Experiment Station (Curtis
Dearborn), 3.19 inches of rainfall
for the month. Fairbanks record
ed .72 inches precipitation for
September, about three-fourths
of the average precipitation for
that month.
Temperaiures
Average was slightly above
normal on the Kenai Peninsula
and near normal to slightly be
low in the Anchorage and Mat
anuska areas. First freezing tem
perature in the Matanuska Valley
was September 7, with the Ex
periment Station recording the
first freeze the 24th. Naptone, .10
miles east of Kenai, reported the
first freezing temperature Sep
tember 10th, 82 days after the
last frost on June 20th. Although
the first freezing temperatures in
the fall at Fairbanks and College
occurred on the 12th, scattered
spots of light frost were reported
on September 10th. Fairbanks re
ported freezing on the 12th and
13th with some readings in the
low 20’s.
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Start Preparations
For Eklntna Tunnel
Drilling Operations
Barely a month since opera
tions started, what appears like
a miracle of construction progress
has gone up on the Eklutna Pro
ject location near Anchorage
Palmer Highway. Milepost 34,
with the Swalling Construction
Co., sub contractor for Palmar
Constructors, hurrying to get a
mess hall and two dormitories
completed for workers who will
be employed all winter on the
tunnel itself.
To Start Facing Tunnel
Even while awaiting these fa
cilities work was progressing last
week on the tunnel project itself.
Hauled in from Anchorage daily
are two shifts of drillers who are
making the access road up to the
tunnel entrance. In about four
weeks’ time, according to Byron
G. Felkner, Eklutna Project con
struction engineer, three shifts of
men will be put to work to get
the tunnel faced up in prepara- !
tion for the actual tunneling op
erations. Once the tunnel drilling
begins from the power plant eni
near Milepost 34. about 25 men
will be working in each of three |
shifts in both headings. Felkner
j said the contractors expect to ■
start driving the shaft from the
other end of the four and one-half
mile tunnel that connects with
the intake.
Plan Ekluina Lake Camp
At the Eklutna Lake site of the
! project operations. Palmer Con
structors will put up a camp also.
Prefabricated homes numbering
25 or 30 for employes’ families,
will be erected at this location
with the work done by the Swal
ling Construction Co.
Both of the housing projects for
the Bureau of Reclamation em
ployes — the 12 “permanent
houses” and 20 "temporary”
houses being built at the project
location near Milepost 34 on the
highway and the 10 “temporary”
houses being built near the Fair
Grounds just outside of Palmer
city limits—should be ready for
occupancy about December 1st,
Felkner said.
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