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.

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.

11-4-13 Ice fishing hazardous - Golovin, Alaska, USA

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

Sinkhole appears along road

10-17-13 No ice fishing yet - Shishmaref, Alaska, USA

Kebnekaise mountain in Sweden will no longer be the tallest in the country as the glacier on its highest peak melts rapidly in an unprecedented heat wave.

6-26-13 Risky ice conditions for whaling - Barrow, Alaska, USA

Rabbit Creek jumped its banks Friday morning on the Anchorage Hillside, washing over a bridge and prompting police to knock on doors asking people inside to evacuate.

6-5-13 Risky ice for whaling - Barrow, Alaska, USA

6-3-13 Erosion disrupts swallows - Evansville, Alaska, USA

For the second year in a row, the Anchorage area set a new snowfall record. This year it wasn’t the amount of fluffy stuff that went down in the history books — last year Anchorage had more than 11 feet — but the days between the first and last snowfall.

The sea is our garden for food and other things.

We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.

3-5-13 Changing sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska, USA

There is a lot of overflow and flooding happening in Anchorage area streams, as a result of the recent record rain fall.

Lack of sea ice affects seal hunting.

A snowmachiner was trapped on the quickly moving floe and he was rescued later by a helicopter.

Unusual weather patterns are pushing the sea ice away from the coast.

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