South winds blew out most of the sea ice. Going to be bad ice if it refreezes for spring hunt.

Residents use drones to show unusual sea ice conditions along the Chukchi coast.

That hurts coastal communities that hunt on the ice. But colder weather may be coming, at least to some portions of Alaska.

Recent storms and warm seas melted a vast stretch of ice in the Bering Sea, leaving some islands surrounded by water when they should be locked in ice.

This fall freeze-up was somewhat delayed, not just in the Bering Straits region, but all the way up to Barrow.

Scripps Oceanography says rapid heating was caused by fair, hot weather