May 2 update from the fastest-warming place on Earth: Alaska's "endless winter" continues; Porcupine River ice still more than 6 feet thick; even some dog mushers are complaining

More than persistent, Alaska's endless winter may signal global cooling | Alaska Dispatch

The ice on the Porcupine River, which joins the Yukon River about 145 miles northeast of the Interior city of Fairbanks, still has ice more than 6-feet thick. It's the state's shiver leader, but then there's a lot of ice everywhere.

The Kuskokwim River at Bethel in comparatively balmy Southwest Alaska still has more than three feet of ice. Nobody will be traveling that waterway by boat anytime soon.

The state has so much May snow and ice that even some dog mushers are complaining.

'May 2 and with several feet of snow still on the ground," Helen Lundberg of Willow lamented on her Facebook page. " I do not like the forecast -- snow and "much cooler" for tomorrow -- feels like this winter refuses to give up on us."  [Via SC]