Consider that in the Arctic October 17 is usually well past the time of autumn leaves, well after the first snow, gray skies predominating.
The caribou have come through the Kobuk Valley, most everyone has gotten their meat for the winter, and the rivers are starting to freeze up.
It'll be dangerous for a while, for anyone snowmachining, so folks will be staying in town or avoiding crossing rivers, ponds and lakes until a real cold night freeze-up.
Any wise mountaineers will have gone home, for from now on the bushplanes on tundra tires will be in danger of getting snowed in to any bush landing strips, and there's probably not enough snow yet for ski-planes to land safely.
Soon even Kotzebue Sound and Norton Sound will be getting slushy with sea ice forming.
Out in the Chukchi Sea there would be ice cakes starting to form up in midwinter.
Now with global warming these patterns might not be happening at the same time of the year.
Query:
Is that safer, or more dangerous?
Now with global warming these patterns might not be happening at the same time of the year.
Query:
Is that safer, or more dangerous?
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