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.

1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA

12-19-13 Wind blew out the ice - Elim, 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.