Due to consistent above average winter temperatures, there are many known and developing open holes on the river. I was on the trail working at the Bogus Creek Checkpoint. Most of the trail had no snow cover, and the majority of the race was run on glare ice over the tundra.
Homeowner Bart Henderson headed back to Haines from Mexico after a fuel-feed line from a heating oil tank to a furnace burst and potentially leaked. “We’ve got a pretty good idea that the cause of the leak was from the hard freeze and then the warm weather,” Pikul said. “There was some frost heaving of the ground and it compromised the feed line.”
A fierce storm sweeping across northern Europe kills eight people and halts Dutch and German trains.
For the first time, the race will run two laps to its halfway point and back. Mushers agree it’s the safest way to run the race, but it could present challenges.
Mid-January robin sighting in Chuathbaluk.
The weather was the warmest I’ve ever seen for this time of year and never seen insects like ladybugs out this time of year.
We've had so much wind this winter, on the 15th of January, the winds were warm!!!!!!
We will have more wacky weather in 2018 as the world continues to warm.
The western Alps of northwestern Italy, southeastern France and extreme southern Switzerland received enormous amounts of fresh snow over the past few days.
How will climate change affect health in Alaska? Dangerous travel conditions could cause more accidents, warmer temperatures could spread new diseases and the topsy-turvy weather could worsen mental health. Those are some conclusions from a new state report released Monday. Listen now
Photograph illustrates the impact of a rain-on-snow event during the winter of 2018.
Cold temperatures have started the Fall of the Iguanas and the immobilization of sea turtles, whose bodies have a hard time adjusting to the change in water temperature.
The powerful winter weather storm was slamming into Massachusetts by mid-morning Thursday, bringing blizzard-like conditions in some areas, torrential rain in others, power outages and hurricane-strength winds on Cape Cod and the Islands.
Extreme event attribution is one of the most rapidly expanding areas of climate science
Sled dog racing season officially began on the Kuskokwim this weekend. Listen now
The statewide average temperature in December was 19.4 degrees, 15.7 degrees above the 20th century average.
While taking photos this afternoon of the snow ice on various objects near the Native Village of Unalakleet, which was on the approximate order of 4 minutes and with very little wind (playground, grass, powerlines), my hands were cold due to the "wetness" in the air and the ambient air temperature.
Winds of up to 85 mph ripped up the Southwest Alaska coast on Friday, upending smokehouses, tearing electric lines and flinging a house across the road.
Multiple storms and warm weather in St. Mary's.
A September storm caused damage in Utqiagvik, and Gov. Bill Walker declared a disaster there last month.
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