Unseasonably warm, dry weather in a large section of the state set the stage for a roughly 20-acre wildfire near Palmer and kept authorities across Southcentral and Interior Alaska busy putting out backyard fires despite ongoing warnings against open burning.

Laysan albatross chickens died from causes related to abnormal Santa Ana winds

2-25-14 Seasonal change - Nightmute, Alalska, USA

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.

2-17-14 Windy, no snow - Wasilla, Alaska, USA

Heavy rains and flooding.

1-27-14 Where is the snow - St. Mary's Alaska, USA

1-24-14 Lake of snow - Nanwalek, Alaska, USA

Alyeska Ski Resort in Girdwood will not open for skiers and snowboarders Tuesday because of unseasonably warm temperatures and severe weather, according to a post on the resort's Facebook page.

1-20-14 Snow then rain - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA

Fuel headers leading to bulk fuel farm out of service due to coastal erosion.

1-3-14 Where is the snow - Solomon, Alaska, USA

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.

Unusually warm weather in Port Heiden.

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

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.

11-11-13 Weather effects caribou migration and season - Barrow, Alaska, USA

Early fall weather conditions brought on an extreme storm surge in a Norton Sound community.

Series of storms contribute to flooding, erosion, infrastructure damage.

Anchorage is having the warmest October on record with an average temperature of 43 degrees. That will beat the record set in 1936 and residents are remarking on the novelty of having green grass and rain on Halloween.