Urgent weather reports from large aircraft pilots in the Anchorage airspace said there was a possible funnel cloud and thunderstorms on Sunday afternoon, but the weather was too cloudy to see either the base or the top of the phenomenon. The exact place unknown but was southwest of Anchorage.
High winds in Anchorage have made for tough flying and power outages across the area.
A Pilot Report or PIREP is a report of the real-time weather encountered by an aircraft in flight. This is the report:
Several of the “heavies,” the cargo jets that come through Anchorage, were forced to do “go arounds” because of the wind and on approach many jets could be seen fighting the wind on Sunday afternoon on the web cam mounted on top of the Alaska Aviation Museum.
