Heavy rains and flooding.

1-27-14 Where is the snow - St. Mary's Alaska, USA

1-20-14 Snow then rain - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

Folks here are famous for being able to handle the cold, but anything wet in December has always made us nervous. Especially wet falling from the sky. Lately, weather, our favorite nemesis, has broken the rules. Our confidence in the most-trustworthy feature of the Arctic -- winter -- has been wounded.

12-7-13 Unseasonably warm weather - Quinhagak, Alaska USA

Sixty-one thousand reindeer starved to death in the northwestern reaches of the Russian tundra in November 2013 in the largest recorded mortality event of its kind.

There is a lot of overflow and flooding happening in Anchorage area streams, as a result of the recent record rain fall.

Herders are struggling to find thousands of reindeer that have run away in search of food. "We are driving for hours and hours to locate our reindeers and to herd them back, but it has been very difficult in these wintry conditions. So, we are also using helicopters and this is very unusual - and very expensive too."

The avalanche came after two days of heavy snow followed by two days of heavy rain. The community had to wait several days before linemen could get to Chignik to repair the damage to its power system.

Bulldozer crews have cleared trails and fields for the bison in hopes of reducing the danger of collisions and damaged fields. There's a layer of ice up to two inches thick within the snowpack that has further complicated foraging.

An inch of rain in late December left a sheet of ice around Fairbanks that is altering life for a bevy of species.