Rick Thoman, the National Weather Service manager for the Alaska region, recently joined KNOM’s Exchange program to recap the winter of 2017-2018 in Western Alaska — and what made it “unprecedented” compared to other winters in recorded history.
Resources and related links: get more information and submit weather observations:
Sea Ice for Walrus Outlook, Arctic Research Consortium of the United States
Alaska Sea Ice Program, National Weather Service
Image at top: file photo: sea ice and the snowy shoreline near Shishmaref. Photo: Maddie Winchester, KNOM.
![April 2nd satellite photo of sea ice coverage in the Bering and Chukchi Seas. Photo Credit: Rick Thoman, NWS (2018)](https://www.knom.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/SeaIcePhoto-565x912.jpg)