BETHEL, Alaska (AP) - It may not technically be break up, but it sure feels like spring in Alaska’s Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta.
KYUK reports (https://is.gd/oXV3lN) residents are seeing more open water in recent weeks after record warm temperatures.
One of those was George Bright Sr., the village public safety officer in Goodnews Bay. He says: “It’s like springtime.”
Bright says residents might attempt to go seal hunting, or seine for trout.
Alaska Pacific River Forecast hydrologist Scott Lindsey says the warm temperatures are unusual, but the delta is not close to break up.
He says for that to happen, there would have to be extensive rainfall or warmer temperatures at higher elevations to melt snowpack.
The forecast calls for temperatures in the Bethel area to be above freezing through Friday.
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Information from: KYUK-AM, https://www.kyuk.org
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