Warm temperatures are rapidly melting snow and creating ice, which creates difficult conditions for dog mushers. Migratory birds are arriving early, and a mosquito emerged months early. Small owls dead around the Goldstream Valley that looked unusually thin.
Warmer than normal temperatures in Anchorage may be causing willows (genus Salix) to bud early.
Willows budding about a month early 30 miles above the Arctic Circle.
Many mature Sitka spruce trees dying off from French Beach south into Sooke along waterfront. Many dead partway up and needles thin.
Large bull kelp (Nereocystis luetkeana) bed near the 1st channel marker, which used to attract sea otters, has disappeared.
During fall time, we only hand pick when the blackberries turn brown. As I was picking I saw this wild iris, like it bloomed just a few days ago. I was very awed to see this flower in October.
The Tongass Forest in southeast Alaska, a temperate rain forest, is experiencing record-low precipitation and severe drought conditions, impacting community hydroelectricity production.
Weather conditions including drought are effecting vegetation in Punjab and other areas of Pakistan.
Delphiniums (Delphinium glaucum) are still growing late in to the season.
Fireweed blooming in mid-late September after other plants have gone to seed.
Spruce branch girdling causing discoloration in tree.
Discolored spruce (Picea sitchensis) needles
Prickly rose plant is blooming when others have gone to hips.
Unusually warm September temperatures.
"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.
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