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# Official Susitna breakup date ties record
- URL: https://ktna.org/official-susitna-breakup-date-ties-record/
- Published: 2019-04-22T20:48:57.000Z
- Updated: 2019-04-22T20:49:58.000Z
- Description: The Susitna River has tied the earliest official breakup day on record. According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center, the Susitna River at Sunshine
- Author: Phillip Manning
- Tags: News, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-07-22 01:28

The Susitna River has tied the earliest official breakup day on record.

According to the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration’s Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center, the Susitna River at Sunshine broke up on Wednesday, April 17th. In other areas of the Northern Valley, there was significant open water on the Susitna more than a week earlier.

That ties the previous record of 2016’s breakup when accounting for the leap year. The Skwentna River set a new record this year, with an official breakup date of April 12th. The previous record was also on April 12th, which occurred in 2016\. Because 2016 was a leap year, however, it is counted as being one day later.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/33/ba/33ba1645-e235-4115-bc50-e5d7ece463fe/content/images/ktna-org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/from-trestle.jpg)

Southward view from the railroad bridge in Talkeetna on April 15th, 2019\. Photo by Phillip Manning – KTNA.

When determining breakup in a warm spring, the Alaska Pacific River Forecast Center relies largely on ground-level observations from people living in local communities, including photographs and social media posts.