Least Surprising News: Another Warm Month in Alaska

Early green up following a very mild winter with little snow.

Earliest Tokositna River break up ever in Denali State Park.

Early bloom of salmonberry bushes.

Early spring and early waterfowl

A heatwave in Unalakleet, Alaska.

Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.

Very warm conditions for this time of year in Southcentral Alaska

At lower elevations, there has been melting, hurricane force winds and rain, which have stripped away the snow and left the trails bare, wet, and icy.

Bumblebees (bombus polaris), moths, butterflies, mosquitoes (Culicidae) and gnats (Nematocera) are still here.

Early sighting of snow this year.

Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.

Unusually rainy year for Lower Kalskag this year.

Unusual weather pattern that changes conditions quickly.

1-27-14 Where is the snow - St. Mary's Alaska, USA

Unusually warm weather in Port Heiden.

1-9-15 Record high temperatures - Bethel, Alaska, USA

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

The sea is our garden for food and other things.

Late snow seasonal snow fall

5-30-14 Unusually cold and snow - King Cove, Alaska, USA

Copper River largely open.

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

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

Early thaw of sloughs in and around Nulato

11-1-13 Boats still on the river - Koyukuk, Alaska, USA

7-27-14 Summer snow - Wasilla, Alaska, USA

1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA

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.

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

No Permanent Winter Ice and Early Break Up For Nome

Heavy rains and flooding.

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

We have bees in February

3/24/15 Early golfing - Palmer, Alaska, USa

Pussy willows (Salix scouleriana) - a sign of spring in Interior Alaska.

Delayed freeze-up on Lake Iliamna.

Open water interferes with subsistence practices.

Early hay crop harvest

Winter is near, but, it is unusually nice outside these days.

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

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

We used to be able to go ice fishing in the lagoon as well as ice skating. Now community members are using a net to get the tomcods.

Warmer temperatures during this fall/winter seem to be changing there life cycle.

Three healthy snowfalls with progessively more snow each time.

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

1-24-14 Lake of snow - Nanwalek, Alaska, USA

2-17-14 Windy, no snow - Wasilla, Alaska, USA

Observed fast moving weather system... as quickly as it came it abated.

We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.

There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.

Summer rain affecting subsistence food preservation.

Weather patterns have changed so much in the past several years.

Funnel cloud photographed from the air while flying near Flathorn Lake

The leaves, in general, don't look too healthy. They seem to lack vitality and are shriveled in many places.

Drought, causing low waters in Goodnews River, no blackberries, and early cool weather.

More open water on rivers and lakes that add to the near-ground moisture.

This is the second year in a row that people from Chuathbaluk are able to use boats (skiffs) on the Kuskokwim River in November.

This is the second longest period of visibility remaining this low at the Anchorage Airport.

Near record stretch of foggy days at Ted Stevens International Airport.

A funnel cloud was sighted minutes after it passed us.

The past couple years have been warmer than normal contributing to where the river is still flowing ice and with some of the plants still green.

There were lightning strike-caused fires at Paul's Creek and Coffee Creek north of King Salmon, AK.

"Our roads are slippery when there would be snow to where the children were out with their sled. Planes never cancelled as much as this year to where the flights were backed up to 3 or 4 days. Lately, we've been seeing grasses regrowing after it warms up out there."

Unusually warm temperatures for an extended period this winter has affected the ability to travel because the river isn't freezing over.

Multiple storms and warm weather in St. Mary's.

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.

We've had so much wind this winter, on the 15th of January, the winds were warm!!!!!!

Using a hand-held Garmin Montana 650t unit, I took photos of the tideline in three areas.

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.

Unusually warm September temperatures.