Swans have arrived early in Southeast Alaska this year, with most lakes still frozen and no green grass anywhere. Most lakes are frozen; the swan is sticking to a small patch of water surrounded by ice.
Weather had been pouring rain and 45-degree temps for several days leading up to the sighting.
Late freeze on the Lower Kuskokwim produced ice conditions unsafe for travel in November.
Many mature Sitka spruce trees dying off from French Beach south into Sooke along waterfront. Many dead partway up and needles thin.
The Tongass Forest in southeast Alaska, a temperate rain forest, is experiencing record-low precipitation and severe drought conditions, impacting community hydroelectricity production.
Fireweed blooming in mid-late September after other plants have gone to seed.
White, puffy, clouds unusually close to the land.
We have visited this creek every summer for 10 years, since 2008, including every August, and we have never seen the water this low.
Wildfire smoke visible in Unalakleet.
At Cold Bay, snow was reported on five days during the month, the most for any May since 2013.
We have over two weeks of cold windy weather. It started in mid April around the time of the big wind storm. And in relation of the wind storm on April 24th, Rick Thoman wrote: "Winds this strong in the Anchorage are rare at this time of year. An unusually strong storm for the season in the southeastern Bering Sea produced southeast strong winds blowing across the Chugach Mountains. However, being April, the temperature profile of the atmosphere close to the ground was more conducive than in winter for allowing the very strong winds aloft to reach down to the ground.
Passenger experiences usually turbulent conditions on winter flights.
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