The smoke from massive wildfires hangs like fog over large parts of the U.S. West, an irritating haze causing health concerns, forcing sports teams to change schedules and disrupting life from Seattle to tiny Seeley Lake, Montana.

Los Angeles County's La Tuna Fire is one of 29 burning across the state, and "is the largest fire in the history of L.A. city," Mayor Eric Garcetti said.

The Canadian Red Cross says an additional 1,500 people from the Garden Hill First Nation in Manitoba have been given evacuation orders due to wildfire smoke in the Island Lake area.

UPDATE 3:55 P.M. With assistance from several supporting agencies, the Kittitas County Sheriff’s Office completed evacuation notices mid-day Saturday in the Roslyn, Ronald and Lake Cle Elum areas.

During September, the average contiguous U.S. temperature was 66.3°F, 1.4°F above average.

According to the National Weather Service, 36.5 million residents, 98% of Californians, are under a heat advisory Friday as a high-pressure system broils the state from the Oregon to Mexico borders.

On a field trip with Northwest Indian College Geology class to Chuckanut Drive saw water with apparent difference in color.

Two extreme weather events in 2006 and 2013 caused mass starvation among the reindeer herds, and researchers for the first time have linked these extreme weather events in the coastal mainland in northwest Russia with sea ice loss in the adjoining Barents and Kara seas.

Three healthy snowfalls with progessively more snow each time.

Warmer temperatures during this fall/winter seem to be changing there life cycle.

Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

Himalaya blackberry is an introduced, perennial, spreading shrub.

Sea ice is here and then disapears.

Early sighting of snow this year.

Unusually fast flooding on the Chignik River.

Winter is near, but, it is unusually nice outside these days.

Unusually rainy year for Lower Kalskag this year.

Hundreds of Chugach Electric customers in Anchorage and Girdwood remained without power Wednesday morning amid outages from Fairbanks to Nikiski.

High wind warning for Anchorage. Winds could reach 50 mph with gusts to 100 mph.