29 April 2009

Summer Forecast: Cool but dry - fire danger in AK

The Alaska Interagency Coordination Center just released its Alaska fire danger outlook for 2009. The one area of the state that stands out as having a hazardous fuels warning is Southcentral Alaska, mainly the Matanuska and Susitna valleys, the Anchorage Hillside, and the western portion of the Kenai Peninsula.

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This could be like the summer of 2004, when there was so much smoke in the air - from a wildfire that consumed over a million acres (didn't hear about that in the main-stream media, didja?) that the mountains, three miles away, were hard to see at times.

Yay.

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