Gale Sayers. 1943-. American football player. Knee injuries cut short the brilliant football career of running back Gale Sayers, but not before the Kansas Comet was recognized by the National Football League (NFL) as the greatest running back in the first 50 years of the league's history.
Ketchikan, Alaska, gets 152 inches of rain per year. The US average is 37. Snowfall is 37 inches. The average US city gets 25 inches of snow per year. The number of days with any measurable precipitation is 228. On average, there are 100 sunny days per year in Ketchikan, Alaska. The July high is around 65 degrees.
Ketchikan is located on the southwestern coast of Revillagigedo Island, opposite Gravina Island, near the southern boundary of Alaska. It is 679 miles north of Seattle and 235 miles south of Juneau.Daily scheduled jet service serves Ketchikan from Seattle, Anchorage, Juneau and many Inside Passage communities.ust 90 miles north of Prince Rupert, British Columbia, Ketchikan hugs the bluffs that form the shoreline along the southwest corner of Revillagigedo Island. Stretching 31 miles long but never more than 10 blocks wide, Ketchikan is centered on Tongass Avenue.