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.
