Adak

I, I mentioned before that among the places my father served was the Aleutian Islands in Alaska, and, uh, that's what got me interested in Russian.

I did, uh, high school there and in Adak, uh, in a rather small high school, but the indigenous population there, the Aleuts, uh, are primarily Russian Orthodox, and they all have Russian names, and a lot of them speak Russian as their second language, the colonial legacy of Alaska originally being part of Russia.

So that got me interested, and I took Russian language in high school and even met a Russian fishing trawler, in quotes, a spy boat captain who had a heart attack and came to our base hospital, and they sent the Russian class in to meet him.

So I met my first Russian and, yeah, that, that got me interested.

As we're talking about in Greenland, well, we need those in the Aleutian Islands.

In Adak, we need a deep water port.

In Nome, Alaska, we do not have a deep water port in the American Arctic yet.

So that's where we're missing, and I am hoping that between additional icebreakers that are coming, more presence in both Pacific and Atlantic Arctics, we can make sure that we are prepared for this changing Arctic.

We're really trying to, like, fill in what's in the middle.

This winter, Thomas and another graduate student plan to visit Unalaska, Nikolski, Atka, Cold Bay, Nelson Lagoon, Sand Point, Chignik Lagoon, and Adak.

The goal is to collect more observations and start filling in the gaps between Kodiak and Shemya.

In Unalaska, I'm Kanesia McGlashan Price.

Now, as we look ahead with our rain totals, this is from the last 24 hours.

Rain totals haven't been anything incredibly significant, but we have seen nearly an inch of rain in Adak over the last 24 hours.

And now all of these zeros you're seeing from Nome to Bethel and into Cold Bay, uh, these are also going to ramp up.

You're gonna see a lot more rain stretching throughout the day today.

A powerful Bering Sea storm is driving the state's bigger operational concern.

The Weather Service in Anchorage has hurricane-force wind warnings up for eight marine zones and high wind warnings for Shemya, Attu, Atka, and Adak.

Fairbanks forecasters issued a coastal flood advisory for the Bering Strait coast and southern Seward Peninsula coast, with water running four to six feet above the normal high tide line, flooding expected on portions of Front Avenue in Teller, and water approaching yards and homes in Nome's Belmont subdivision.

Six high surf advisories cover the western Arctic coast, the Yukon Delta coast, Shishmaref, Kivalina, and Red Dog Dock, northern Seward Peninsula, and eastern Norton Sound.

That's gonna get ingested by that area of low pressure out towards the Kamchatka Peninsula, and that's gonna lead to some strong winds through the Aleutians.

If you live west of Adak, out towards Shemya, uh, Attu, this is where we're talking about winds in excess of 70 miles per hour.

We could potentially see winds up to 90 miles per hour.

Then as you head across western parts of the state, uh, we've got that coastal flood advisory, some high surf advisories, and yes, even some high winds expected across western Alaska.