Extreme weather in Alaska that has brought record high temperatures and torrential downpours has left authorities in the far northern US state warning of 'Icemageddon'.
Rick Thoman, a weather specialist at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks, called the conditions of the past few days"very unusual".
Unsettled weather was continuing to play havoc with flights in an out of Sea-Tac International Airport in Seattle, with hundreds of flights canceled or delayed this week.
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