"They are extremely fresh-looking, as if it were the springtime."
Front page of the Daily News-Miner documents a late blooming rose during a colder than average August.
The spruce along the highway between mile 157 and 162 show signs of stress, the tips of the branches are orangish and the deep green of the trees are fading.
Spruce rust (Chrysomyxa ledicola) fungal spores found along the banks on the Kuskokwim River
The northern gorundcone (Boschniakia rossica)s not commonly found in this area.
We observed large patches of marine macro-algae (Sargassum sp.) floating just offshore, drifting north, and getting stranded on the beach.
Evidence from Dominican Republic of the larger regional weed event.
We have over two weeks of cold windy weather. It started in mid April around the time of the big wind storm. And in relation of the wind storm on April 24th, Rick Thoman wrote: "Winds this strong in the Anchorage are rare at this time of year. An unusually strong storm for the season in the southeastern Bering Sea produced southeast strong winds blowing across the Chugach Mountains. However, being April, the temperature profile of the atmosphere close to the ground was more conducive than in winter for allowing the very strong winds aloft to reach down to the ground.
"Our roads are slippery when there would be snow to where the children were out with their sled. Planes never cancelled as much as this year to where the flights were backed up to 3 or 4 days. Lately, we've been seeing grasses regrowing after it warms up out there."
The past couple years have been warmer than normal contributing to where the river is still flowing ice and with some of the plants still green.
Drought, causing low waters in Goodnews River, no blackberries, and early cool weather.
An afterschool club have been monitoring rosehips and found this late-blooming flower.
We do not ever recall having flowers blooming this late in the year.
Fairbanks rose bush blooming in early September, 2017.
Late blooming Laughing Berry (Gaultheria shallon) in Metlakatla
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