 It is in the rain shadow of the coastal mountains, though not as pronounced as the rain shadow in Southcentral Alaska, in the valley of the Susitna River, this still allows it to receive only half as much precipitation as Juneau and only a sixth as much as Yakutat.Although winters are too cold for the classification, precipitation patterns resemble a mediterranean climate due to the dry summers.The highest temperature recorded in Skagway is in three separate years, most recently in 1975, and the lowest temperature recorded is on February 2, 1947.