Alaska's regions
Southcentral Alaska
See Anchorage, then step out into the wild areas
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Climate
Summers are pleasant in Southcentral Alaska, with high temperatures reaching the 70s. Clear skies are most common in the spring and early summer.
In the six months of winter, hundreds of inches of snow falls in the coastal mountains. Anchorage, however, averages less than 60 inches per winter. Snowfall can be expected from October to April.
Southcentral Alaska has 24-hour light at the beginning of summer (a combination of sunlight and twilight). The longest day in Anchorage is 19.5 hours of sunlight. In the winter, the shortest day is 5.5 hours long.
Cook Inlet and Turnagain Arm have one of the greatest tidal ranges in the world, about 30 feet between low and high tides.
Military might
Anchorage has Elmendorf Air Force Base, Fort Richardson and Kulis Air National Guard. The Coast Guard has installations at Cordova, Homer, Kenai, Seward and Valdez.
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