Normally, we have so many feet of snow throughout the village and the mountains would be packed with snow.
The victim, identified as 28-year-old Alexander Hellweger, was part of a group of eight friends from Italy and Belgium vacationing in Alaska.
South winds blew out most of the sea ice. Going to be bad ice if it refreezes for spring hunt.
Warm weather has made for unsafe traveling conditions, including a snowmachine race.
The physical poetry of skiing well can make you feel like a spiritual being. It feels like meaning. That's why we teach our kids to ski. Not because we want
Weekend storm eroded the face of the sea wall.
More than two weeks after the area typically opens for snowmachiners, the pass remained closed Tuesday as lower elevations continued to see below-average snow levels.
By this time of the year, we usually have 2-3 miles of shore-fast ice that sticks to our beach. We as a village have not done our winter harvest of seals and walrus, and we are worried that we will not be able to bowhead whale hunt.
11-13-14 Unseasonable warm - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA
The ocean is still open, and have not even begun to freeze yet.
7-27-14 Summer snow - Wasilla, Alaska, USA
Loss of shoreline and subsistence camps.
5-30-14 Unusually cold and snow - King Cove, Alaska, USA
4-29-14 Sea ice rescue - Barrow, Alaska, USA
4-13-14 River ice treacherous - Bethel, Alaska, USA
Animals cannot forage for lichen under the snow crust on the Yamal peninsula.
There has been a lack of snow in the Golovin area ever since the January 2014 warm spell.
Mount Sanford has been losing its ice cover for decades around its base.
By mid century, past Olympic venues like Squaw Valley, California; Oslo, Norway; Chamonix, France; and—of course—Sochi, will be too warm to ever host the Winter Games again.
2-20-14 Very little snow - Bethel, Alaska, USA
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