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by haroldp 4181 days ago
I grew up there! The weather is a lot different than Anchorage. Anchorage is colder. Whittier gets a TON more precipitation.

The Army actually built Whittier during WWII because it was a good deepwater port (ironically, Anchorage has huge tides that make it a horrible anchorage) that was always overcast, making it hard, they thought, for the Japanese to bomb.