Koyuk River foze solid by Oct-14 by the 28th there was open water.

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.

Extreme winds from a huge weekend storm over the Great Lakes pushed huge walls of ice on the shores of Lake Erie.

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

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

Poor ice quality on the Teedriinjik (Chandalar) River

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

From an average freeze-up to rewarming and a lack of snow. The winter weather is now gone making the river ice unstable enough to go across to the community of Togiak for groceries household goods, bad situation.

11-27-12 Still no snow or Yukon ice - Fort Yukon, Alaska, USA

"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."

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

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.

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