The longest October dry spell on record for Haines was followed Sunday by one of the month’s largest, one-day dumps of snow.
By the time it stopped falling Monday afternoon, 12 inches had piled up at Paul Swift’s weather station on Union Street.
“It really came down hard and heavy,” said Rick Fritsch, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Juneau. Fritsch said the dump was second only to 12.8 inches that fell here…
