Highlights

Drier than normal conditions across most of the state, with near record low precipitation across the Interior.

Colder than normal April for the Interior, North Slope, and Panhandle; warmer than normal for the West Coast.

High end-of-month snow water equivalent values across Interior river basins as rapid snowmelt occurs.

Wildfire season started this month with 10,302 acres burned in a fire near Kwethluk in southwest Alaska.