Salal bushes observed to be very dry and dying in British Columbia.
the Beaufort Picnic Area appears to consist of stream-origin alluvial cobbles, pebbles, and perhaps sand, and so not well consolidated, thus perhaps making these trees relatively vulnerable to wind. The snapped-off trees, however, indicate the unusually high intensity of this particular windstorm.
The snow cover in Anchorage and the Chugach is disappearing very quickly. Go out and get it while you can!
Avalanche monitors say danger remains high in Turnagain Pass, Girdwood and Portage.
Weather is relatively consistent around this time of year, but this season, storms have come in quickly.
Jeffrey Cheng, 33, died in the slide. One of his friends managed to hold on to a tree as waves of avalanche debris washed over his head. The third member of their group wasn’t caught.
Warm ocean temperatures are keeping ice thin, which become easily moved by the wind. This ice movement separates commercial and subsistence crabbers from their gear, and have led to the loss of both crabbing and mining gear.
An agency in Colorado that tracks avalanches hiked its danger level to "extreme" for a swath of the state, the highest level on its scale.
The snow began falling in early February and hardly let up until the last day of the month, setting records at local ski resorts and causing havoc across the
Warm temperatures break 30 year record.
Thousands of years old ice disappears all over Norway. Dag Inge Bakke (42) is among those struggling to save the frozen archive of the past.
The winter holiday offers 15 degrees (C) of heat and spring flowers.
n 52 years, 36 observations of the species have been recorded in Norway. This one included.
In Etne in Hordaland, 30.4 degrees of heat were measured at 15 today. Never has it been so hot so late in the year in Norway.
'This year especially there's been lots of reports of thin ice and open water in places where there hasn't been in previous years,' said James Connor of the Klondike Snowmobile Association.
If high temperatures melt snow and that leads to a bear’s den getting flooded, that’s another reason the bear might head outside. It’ll likely try to find another den, Farley said.
For safety dogs and mushers will be trucked from Braeburn to Carmacks.
Large quantities of sargassum are likely to wash up on the beaches of Mexico’s Caribbean coast in 2019, according to a researcher.
Damage assessment underway due to fallen trees, hanging debris
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