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This is the current conditions weather report for Juneau. The report was made 32 minutes ago, at 04:53 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 3 miles per hour / 5.6 kilometers per hour from the westsouthwest (240°). The temperature was 63°F / 17°C, with a dew-point at 63°F / 17°C. The atmospheric pressure was 30.09 inHg / 1020 hPa. The relative humidity was 68%. The skies were mostly cloudy.

The City and Borough of Juneau is a unified municipality located on the Gastineau Channel on the Alexander Archipelago of Alaska. Juneau is the capital of the State of Alaska. The municipality unified in 1970 when the City of Juneau merged with the City of Douglas and the surrounding borough to form the current home rule municipality.

The area of Juneau is larger than that of Rhode Island, Delaware, or Connecticut, and almost as large as Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Juneau is nestled at the base of Mount Juneau and across the channel from Douglas Island. As of the 2000 census, the City and Borough had a population of 30,711. The U.S. Census Bureau's 2005 population estimate for the City and Borough was 30,987.

Juneau was named after gold prospector Joe Juneau. The Tlingit name of the town is Dzántik'i Héeni "river where the flounders gather", and Auke Bay just north of Juneau proper is called Aak'w "little lake" in Tlingit. The Taku River just south of Juneau was named after the cold t'aakh wind that blows down from the mountains, and is the source of some of Juneau's more unpleasant weather.

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