Skagway under wind advisory until 7 pm Monday, gusts to 45 mph

The National Weather Service in Juneau has issued a wind advisory for the Municipality of Skagway, in effect until 7 pm Monday. Residents should secure outdoor objects before then. South winds of 15 to 25 mph, with gusts up to 45 mph, are expected through the evening.

Gusty winds will blow around unsecured objects, the advisory states. Tree limbs could come down. A few power outages may result.

It is the 33rd wind advisory covering Skagway this year, according to weather service records archived by Iowa State University. A Sept. 30 advisory ran until 1 pm Thursday, Oct. 1, with gusts near 40 mph, and warned that high-profile vessels could have trouble docking. An advisory issued Sept. 7 forecast gusts up to 50 mph, with a brief period above that possible during a frontal passage. A high wind watch issued Sept. 18 warned of gusts around 50 to 60 mph as a strong low-pressure system moved into the northern Gulf of Alaska. Forecasters replaced it with a wind advisory the next day and canceled it late on Sept. 20.

In July, forecasters extended an advisory twice. Late on July 23, they reported gusts up to 45 mph across Taiya Inlet and the Skagway Docks. That advisory expired at 1 am the next day.

NWS Juneau has described Southeast Alaska's terrain as complex, producing conditions that vary sharply from one spot to the next.