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.

A windstorm pounded parts of Southcentral Alaska early Monday, knocking down trees and cutting off power for thousands of people from the Matanuska Valley to the Kenai Peninsula.

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

Salmon and crab gear seeing an incredible increase in mussel roe and slime.

Sinkhole appears along road

10-19-13 Hairless seal - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

10-17-13 No ice fishing yet - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

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

Coastal erosion potential threat to community sewage lagoon.

10-13-13 Skin illness on whitefish (Coregonus nelsonii)

The runway, built in 1958, is over-top of permafrost and frozen soils.

9-24-13 Bluff erosion - St. Michael, Alaska

Common carp (Cyprinus carpio) and channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) die from low dissolved oxygen and ammonia that are the result of an over-application of biosolids.

9-14-13 Stickle-back fish kill - Lake Illiamna, Alaska, USA

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 my way home for a lunch break, I noticed a different type of bird that I have ever seen before.

9-11-13 Unusual spider - Chignik, Lagoon, Alaska, USA

This has been a great year for the mushrooms

9-5-13 Caribou delayed - Kiana, Alaska, USA

The blueberries are so ripe now that the best time to pick those are late morning while they are chilled down and the leaves are not so moist, otherwise they fall easily or squish in your fingers.