'This year especially there's been lots of reports of thin ice and open water in places where there hasn't been in previous years,' said James Connor of the Klondike Snowmobile Association.
When the green water is here, its dangerous to travel straight across the Lagoon to White Mountain. In the past we took the land route, cross on Kitchavik river and on up over land to White Mountain.
Authorities warned that drivers should use caution in the area due to the potential for additional rockslides.
For safety dogs and mushers will be trucked from Braeburn to Carmacks.
Normal ice build up not occurring. It seems like the ice along the shoreline is not moving into the river.
Wednesday night’s storm in North Iceland brought exceptionally warm air and extreme wind conditions. The small village of Borgarfjörður eystri, in the north of the East Fjords, suffered damage that included asphalt blowing off a paved road surface.
It has been a month since the 7.0 earthquake in Anchorage. Are these sinkholes which suddenly appeared related?
Damage assessment underway due to fallen trees, hanging debris
Record wind speeds have been clocked in southern maritime districts as a storm dubbed Aapeli causes widespread power cuts and train delays across Finland.
Late freeze on the Lower Kuskokwim produced ice conditions unsafe for travel in November.
Drivers need to stick to marked trails on the Lower Kuskokwim River, according to the latest update from Bethel Search and Rescue’s Earl Samuelson. There is a spot in front of Oscarville that has only 9 inches of ice, which Samuelson says is too thin to drive a truck on.
Officials press forward with emergency plan following string of collapses at Del Mar bluffs.
“I wouldn’t have been on the road if there had been an avalanche warning in effect,” says a woman who fell victim to an avalanche along Flateyrarvegur in the Westfjords on Friday. The avalanche-prone road is not currently monitored, but Vegagerðin is now looking at improvements.
Now three years in a row the river is jammed, upriver from Dawson, and that leaves a big open lead of water right in front of town.
Seismologists called the quake the most significant in the state’s largest city since 1964, in terms of how strong the ground itself shook.
At least one car was on the ramp at the time of the quake, a photo of which circulated on social media Friday morning.
This was the warmest autumn on record for western Alaska. Local observer comments on how lack of sea ice is effecting fish and bird behavior.
In the industrial city of Norilsk in Siberia's Krasnoyarsk region, which sits above the Arctic Circle, visibility dropped to zero and buses, planes and ships were canceled or rerouted as a snowstorm raged on Tuesday, reaching speeds of 25 meters per second. The city's emergency services stayed on high alert as a holiday was declared for children and mobile heating stations were set up.
The death toll in the Camp fire in Northern California rose to 63 Thursday as President Trump planned to visit California to meet with people impacted by the wildfires in what marks his second trip to the state since his election.
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