Nunavut experienced some 'strange' weather in the past few days, causing shipping containers to fly through one community and muddy puddles in another.
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.
Hazardous driving conditions due to freezing rain.
In less than three years, the number of animals on the island of Kolguyev dropped from more than 12,000 to only 153.
On 11 April 2016 we observed high slushflow and wet snow avalanche activity at the environmental monitoring station Kobbefjord in West Greenland.
Winter transformed from time of snow to time of ice.
It was a very warm week of the 25th of January, on my way home it started raining pretty heavy, mind you, no snow, but rain. I was expecting maybe some wet snow, but it was not to be...
A heatwave in Unalakleet, Alaska.
Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.
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.
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.
11-11-14 Unseasonable warm - Ruby, Alaska, USA
11-01-14 Unseasonably warm - Pitkas Point, Alaska, USA
Heavy rains and flooding.
1-27-14 Where is the snow - St. Mary's Alaska, USA
1-20-14 Snow then rain - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
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.
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.
There is a lot of overflow and flooding happening in Anchorage area streams, as a result of the recent record rain fall.
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