While nearly half the country sits under a blanket of snow, people in Alaska’s biggest city amazingly find themselves surrounded by green grass and bare slopes.
Anchorage residents are typically digging themselves out this time of year as the area sees around 17 inches of powder, the Associated Press reports.
Strangely, the Last Frontier city has seen less than 4 inches, but because the snow fell last month, the sun has melted it already due to increased temperatures in the region.
Locals have been donning roller skis — or leaving town to find snowy slopes elsewhere.
Around 50 percent of the US has seen snowfall this week, according to the National Weather Service.
In addition, every single state in the country, including Hawaii, registered temperatures below freezing. This is all thanks to Arctic air bearing down on the warmer Great Lakes — producing what’s known as lake-effect snows.
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