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.

Unusually warm weather in Port Heiden.

12-7-13 Unseasonably warm weather - Quinhagak, Alaska USA

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.

On Monday, Anchorage reached the 70-degree threshold for a record 14th straight day, breaking 2004's record of 13.

7-22-13 Heat illness - Nondalton, Alaska, USA

Residents were amazed to see lightning actually arching down to the ground.

6-19-13 Extreme temperature Bethel, Alaska, USA

6-18-13 Extreme heat - Koyukuk, Alaska, USA

The Anchorage Police Department is warning parents to be cautious after three separate incidents in a week involving toddler-aged children falling out of windows opened in the warm weather.

The sea is our garden for food and other things.

We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.