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It wasn’t very long ago that we got a serious snowstorm in the Washington, DC, area that was called “Snowmageddon” and “Snowpocalypse.”

Well, it’s Alaska’s turn, apparently. Here’s a news story about it from the Reuters agency:

>>An “epic” storm was bearing down on western Alaska on Tuesday, the National Weather Service said, warning that it could be one of the worst on record for the state.

The storm, moving inland from the Aleutian Islands, was expected to bring hurricane-force winds with gusts up to 100 miles per hour, heavy snowfall, widespread coastal flooding and severe erosion to most of Alaska’s west coast, the National Weather Service warned.

“This will be an extremely dangerous and life threatening storm of an epic magnitude rarely experienced,” the service said in a special warning message on Tuesday.

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Personally, I had enough of the white stuff just a couple of months ago when we were literally buried with it during Snowpocalypse. But some folks can never get enough … if you are in San Francisco. Here’s a story from sfgate.com:

>>A rare late-spring storm, coming at the end of what has been a chilly May, will lead to a most unusual promotion this weekend at one Sierra resort – skiing on Memorial Day.

By then the weather should be sunny and warmer, but for the rest of this week, damp skies will be the rule in the mountains and the Bay Area flatlands, forecasters said Tuesday.

A weather system moved onshore about midday Tuesday, bringing widespread rain to the Bay Area and snow to about the 6,900-foot level around Lake Tahoe. At least one resort is taking advantage of the weird weather to invite skiers to enjoy one last fandango on the slopes.

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