Kettle ponds in Denali National Park contain less water this spring than in previous years, due to low snowfall and permafrost thaw. Shrubs are replacing grasses as the lakes dry.
Salal bushes observed to be very dry and dying in British Columbia.
the Beaufort Picnic Area appears to consist of stream-origin alluvial cobbles, pebbles, and perhaps sand, and so not well consolidated, thus perhaps making these trees relatively vulnerable to wind. The snapped-off trees, however, indicate the unusually high intensity of this particular windstorm.
The snow cover in Anchorage and the Chugach is disappearing very quickly. Go out and get it while you can!
Weather is relatively consistent around this time of year, but this season, storms have come in quickly.
Warm ocean temperatures are keeping ice thin, which become easily moved by the wind. This ice movement separates commercial and subsistence crabbers from their gear, and have led to the loss of both crabbing and mining gear.
Late freeze on the Lower Kuskokwim produced ice conditions unsafe for travel in November.
Many mature Sitka spruce trees dying off from French Beach south into Sooke along waterfront. Many dead partway up and needles thin.
Photograph illustrates the impact of a rain-on-snow event during the winter of 2018.
Permafrost thaw is causing trail in Golovin to erode.
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