10-24-13 Warm weather delays subsistence - Shaktoolik, Alaska, USA
10-15 13 Too wet for food preservation - Elim, Alaska, USA
Coastal erosion potential threat to community sewage lagoon.
Rain overnight in Anchorage pushed the number of consecutive rainy days in the city to 18 -- tying a record set in September 1919, the National Weather Service reports.
On Monday, Anchorage reached the 70-degree threshold for a record 14th straight day, breaking 2004's record of 13.
7-22-13 Heat illness - Nondalton, Alaska, USA
Residents were amazed to see lightning actually arching down to the ground.
6-19-13 Extreme temperature Bethel, Alaska, USA
6-18-13 Extreme heat - Koyukuk, Alaska, USA
The Anchorage Police Department is warning parents to be cautious after three separate incidents in a week involving toddler-aged children falling out of windows opened in the warm weather.
The sea is our garden for food and other things.
We are having an unseasonable snow storm in southcentral Alaska.
Batogoo Dorj is a nomad in southern Mongolia’s Bayankhongor Region who makes his living raising cashmere goats. Each spring, Dorj can shear about 300 grams of the valuable, downy wool from each of his 350 goats. Those voracious and sharp-hoofed animals are contributing to the desertification and climate change that is reducing Mongolia’s available grazing land.
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.
Much of the state became one heck of an ice rink over the weekend, with temperatures spiking into the 40s in much of Southcentral Alaska and thawing reported as far north as Fairbanks.
Fire Island is producing more than expected for this time of year according to Ethan Schutt, senior vice president of land and development for Cook Inlet Region, Inc. (CIRI) the Alaska Native corporation that operates the wind farm. So far about 17,000 megawatt hours have been produced, enough to power roughly 6,500 Southcentral homes each month.
Half of what we usually have this time of year.
9-21-12 Extreme rain and flooding - Wasilla, Alaska, USA
9-5-12 Windfall causes flood hazard - Anchorage, Alaska, USA
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