Weekend storm eroded the face of the sea wall.

More than two weeks after the area typically opens for snowmachiners, the pass remained closed Tuesday as lower elevations continued to see below-average snow levels.

By this time of the year, we usually have 2-3 miles of shore-fast ice that sticks to our beach. We as a village have not done our winter harvest of seals and walrus, and we are worried that we will not be able to bowhead whale hunt.

11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

The ocean is still open, and have not even begun to freeze yet.

7-27-14 Summer snow - Wasilla, Alaska, USA

Loss of shoreline and subsistence camps.

5-30-14 Unusually cold and snow - King Cove, Alaska, USA

4-29-14 Sea ice rescue - Barrow, Alaska, USA

4-13-14 River ice treacherous - Bethel, Alaska, USA

Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.

There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.

Mount Sanford has been losing its ice cover for decades around its base.

By mid century, past Olympic venues like Squaw Valley, California; Oslo, Norway; Chamonix, France; and—of course—Sochi, will be too warm to ever host the Winter Games again.

2-20-14 Very little snow - Bethel, Alaska, USA

Heavy rains and flooding.

Heavy sea ice observed in southeast Alaska.

1-26-14 Ice disrupts subsistence - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

1-24-14 Lake of snow - Nanwalek, Alaska, USA

No sea ice alone the northside of the Alaska Peninsula.