I once heard Southeast Alaska referred to as Baja Alaska owing to the fact that the weather is more like Seattle than Anchorage or the below-zero temperatures of Fairbanks. The best time of year, I have found, is late April and early May for sunshine, and August for sport fishing. Summer is brief but beautiful. Long days and short nights leave a lot of time for outdoor activity. Funny, but true all the same.
Winter is generally mild with long nights and short days.
Although there is more snow than in Seattle, it rains between snowfalls keeping sizable drifts from accumulating. It was raining when I came to the area in the month of October. I arrived knowing little of what to expect from the weather, the people, the flying conditions, or any safety considerations. At first it seemed that all of the piloting experience that I had accumulated from the Lower 48 was necessarily going to go out the window. I felt that I had suddenly been thrown into a prehistoric aviation time warp.