Blue-footed booby nesting on San Jeronimo Island.

It seems very warm when the sun comes out.

High rate of change in weather conditions

11-18-14 Winter river break-up - Kongiganak, Alaska, USA

11-15-14 Unseasonably warm - Kwinhagak, Alaska, USA

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

11-11-14 Unseasonable warm - Ruby, Alaska, USA

Partially derived from former Super Typhoon Nuri, the typhoon's remnants joined up with the polar jet stream and a very strong disturbance in the mid-latitude belt of westerly winds, leading to explosive development of low pressure.

11-01-14 Unseasonably warm - Pitkas Point, Alaska, USA

10-10-14 Unseasonable weather - St. Michael, Alaska, USA

High rainfall this month is being blamed for a major landslide near Sitka. The US Forest Service reports that a 100-acre slide came down in the Starrigavan Valley, about ten miles from town. The slide, and water damage to an ATV trail in the valley and other hiking trails elsewhere in Sitka -- all add up to a tough month for the agency.

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.

11-11-13 Weather effects caribou migration and season - Barrow, Alaska, USA

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.

Series of storms contribute to flooding, erosion, infrastructure damage.

Anchorage is having the warmest October on record with an average temperature of 43 degrees. That will beat the record set in 1936 and residents are remarking on the novelty of having green grass and rain on Halloween.

10-24-13 Warm weather delays subsistence - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

10-15 13 Too wet for food preservation - Elim, Alaska, USA

Coastal erosion potential threat to community sewage lagoon.

Rain overnight in Anchorage pushed the number of consecutive rainy days in the city to 18 -- tying a record set in September 1919, the National Weather Service reports.