Delta Junction

A flood advisory covers the city and borough of Juneau into early Saturday.

Farther north, the Fairbanks office has winter weather advisories posted for the Dalton Highway summits, the White Mountains, and the central and eastern Beaufort Sea coast, plus a wind advisory for Delta Junction.

The US Geological Survey recorded a magnitude five point six earthquake forty-three kilometers north-northwest of Lake Minchumina on Thursday at a depth of about four point five kilometers.

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But these storm impacts will also push north into the interior, where you could see some snowfall for your Friday.

There is a chance of seeing that in areas like Delta Junction for the day today, but snowfall is mostly expected into Fairbanks just by Friday.

Just t- goes to show how far these impacts can spread from just one storm.

Now, as we track ahead with our wind speed forecast, you can see just later on, uh, as the day begins to progress, we'll really start to see these strong winds building in areas like Anchorage.

Construction crews worked from both directions, men building north from the Yukon while American crews pushed east from Alaska.

And at the center of that effort was Delta Junction.

For the men coming south from Fairbanks, Delta Junction was the gateway to the new highway.

For those coming north through Canada, it was the point where the road finally connected with the existing Richardson Highway.

Just over one month later from when the two bulldozers touched, on October 28th, 1942, the highways met.

But for the interior, mostly sunny skies in store for you.

Areas like Delta Junction, even into Tok, likely to start the morning with some cloud cover, even a little bit of snowfall is possible in Tok.

Otherwise, for Southeast, you are in store for much more sunshine throughout the day today.

Showers are likely from Sitka southward, so brace for that.

But then I drove up through the Yukon into Alaska.

From Dawson Creek is where the official Alaska Highway starts, and it finishes at Delta Junction.

So I drove the Alaska Highway.

Then I kept going further.

Really important in Juneau, Sitka, Fairbanks.

We had some people in Delta Junction, Toke, Nome.

I think we had some folks.

Kenai, Homer.

Let's go back in the time machine a little bit and travel back in time.

You grew up in Delta Junction, Alaska.

I have to admit, I've been to Alaska a few times, but, you know, just kind of the main cities as a tourist, and I don't ever recall going through Delta Junction.

So... your family was facing physical disabilities, as I mentioned in the intro, and financial hardship.

What did that environment teach you about finding kind of a way forward when resources were limited?

Yeah, and I think that's a really great question.

You definitely went back and did your research for sure.

You know, my parents, they moved out to Delta Junction and my dad's side of the family, they started a restaurant and a hotel up there back in the 80s.

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