Unusually fast flooding on the Chignik River.
Visits Port of Nome before voyage through Northwest Passage.
A problem for outboards.
A newly built bridge in Tes soum of Uvs Province collapsed on Saturday during a heavy rain.
No Permanent Winter Ice and Early Break Up For Nome
Previously, the dredging started around May and ran through October, but the past three winters it has started earlier and run longer.
An ice road near Deline, N.W.T. is closed after a fuel tanker plunged through on Saturday.
Nome was hit by unseasonably warm temperatures and strong winds.
River erosion damaging pedestrian walkway
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.
DOT spokesperson Shannon McCarthy said the weather this week -- alternately freezing and thawing -- was likely the culprit.
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.
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Thawing all-terrain vehicle (ATV) trail.
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Severe storms wreak havoc to a Bering Sea community; the following weather conditions contributed to flooding, disrupting transportation routes, electrical transformers and seepage into local water wells.
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