Hurricane-force winds, 50-foot seas expected as remnants of typhoon barrel toward Alaska

Impacts from Typhoon Merbok are streaming northward (NOAA) Forecast models show the pressure with the upcoming event could drop to around 940 millibars, which will produce sustained winds of 50 to 65 mph with gusts to 75 mph along the southwestern coast.Alaska Predicted Wind Gusts(FOX Weather) ALASKA EXPERIENCES AN EARTHQUAKE EVERY 10 MINUTES, SCIENTISTS SAYThe National Weather Service expects a storm surge of between 3 and 6 feet, which could inundate low-lying coastal communities."It’s definitely going to be a significant event.

It’s shaping up to be one of the worst events that we’ve seen for years," the National Weather Service office in Fairbanks, Alaska said.Communities such as Adak, Unalaska, St.

Paul, St. Johns and Bethel will all be near the center of the storm, where winds and rains will be the heaviest."For most of those Alaskan communities, when a storm is bearing down, they don’t have the capability for evacuations.

So what they normally do is they’ll go to a community shelter, which is the safe option," said Jeremy Zidek, public information officer at Alaska’s Division of Homeland Security and Emergency Management. "Supply chain issues, transportation issues and weather issues are kind of a regular occurrence, so people have to be pretty resilient to even live in those areas."Several alerts that include a Coastal Flood Watch, Storm Warning and Gale Warning have been issued by the NWS ahead of the arrival of the worst of the weather, which is expected to happen on Friday and into Saturday.Alaska Wind Alerts(FOX Weather) FAA ADDING WEATHER STATIONS ACROSS ALASKA TO INCREASE AVIATION SAFETYMeteorologists and first responders are most concerned about the maritime community, which produces most of the nation’s.