After being buried, the trapped hiker was able to kick his legs free. A hiker passing by spotted his feet sticking out of the snow.
Rockfall along the Seward Highway near Beluga Point has been happening since wind and rain battered the area earlier this week.
Since yesterday evening, over two dozen people have visited the emergency room at the National University Hospital of Iceland owing to icy conditions in the Greater Reykjavík area.
It rained on December 15th in Svalbard and the resulting ice made it difficult for reindeer to graze. The reindeer likely starved to death after being unable to find food, according to scientists at the Norwegian Polar Institute (NPI).
A GCI cell tower in Western Alaska encapsulated in unusually thick ice and snow has caused service disruptions in villages.
Photograph illustrates the impact of a rain-on-snow event during the winter of 2018.
Multiple storms and warm weather in St. Mary's.
Nunavut experienced some 'strange' weather in the past few days, causing shipping containers to fly through one community and muddy puddles in another.
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.
Hazardous driving conditions due to freezing rain.
In less than three years, the number of animals on the island of Kolguyev dropped from more than 12,000 to only 153.
On 11 April 2016 we observed high slushflow and wet snow avalanche activity at the environmental monitoring station Kobbefjord in West Greenland.
Winter transformed from time of snow to time of ice.
It was a very warm week of the 25th of January, on my way home it started raining pretty heavy, mind you, no snow, but rain. I was expecting maybe some wet snow, but it was not to be...
A heatwave in Unalakleet, Alaska.
Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.
At lower elevations, there has been melting, hurricane force winds and rain, which have stripped away the snow and left the trails bare, wet, and icy.
We used to be able to go ice fishing in the lagoon as well as ice skating. Now community members are using a net to get the tomcods.
11-11-14 Unseasonable warm - Ruby, Alaska, USA
11-01-14 Unseasonably warm - Pitkas Point, Alaska, USA
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