Hazardous Forecast...for your Lungs!

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AKZ222-290200-
MIDDLE TANANA VALLEY-
INCLUDING...FAIRBANKS...FORT WAINWRIGHT...EIELSON AFB...ESTER...
NORTH POLE...MOOSE CREEK...TWO RIVERS...FOX...CHATANIKA...CHENA
HOT SPRINGS...SOURDOUGH CAMP
130 PM ADT MON JUN 28 2004

...DENSE SMOKE ADVISORY THROUGH 3PM THIS AFTERNOON...

.TODAY...DENSE SMOKE REDUCING VISIBILITY TO AS LOW AS ONE
EIGHTH OF A MILE THROUGH EARLY AFTERNOON. VISIBILITY IMPROVING
A LITTLE BY 3PM. HIGHS IN THE 80S. NORTHWEST WINDS
5 TO 10 MPH SHIFTING TO NORTH THIS AFTERNOON.
.TONIGHT...SMOKE. LOWS 55 TO 65. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 10 MPH.
.TUESDAY...SMOKE. HIGHS 80 TO 90. NORTHEAST WINDS 5 TO 15 MPH.
.TUESDAY NIGHT...SMOKE. LOWS 60 TO 65. NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO
20 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY...SMOKE. HIGHS 80 TO 90. EAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH.
.WEDNESDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 55 TO 65.
.THURSDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. HIGHS 80 TO 85.
.THURSDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 55 TO 60.
.FRIDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HIGHS 75 TO 80.
.FRIDAY NIGHT...PARTLY CLOUDY. LOWS 55 TO 60.
.SATURDAY...PARTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HIGHS 75 TO 80.
.SATURDAY NIGHT...MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. LOWS 55 TO
60.
.INDEPENDENCE DAY...MOSTLY CLOUDY. CHANCE OF SHOWERS. HIGHS 75 TO
80.

&&
            TEMPERATURE / PRECIPITATION
FAIRBANKS    85  65  85 /   0   0   0

[pawlee]

smoke em' if you got em'!

[weatherlover427]

And this is in ALASKA?

[Josephine96]

My guess would be that even a cold spot like Alaska has wildfires lol

[wx247]

Except that it hasn't been cold there lately.

[shaner]

http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=2247

Mostly dry weather and record warmth prevailed across much of eastern Alaska, while near-normal temperatures and scattered showers overspread western parts of the State. Weekly temperatures averaged more than 10 degrees F above normal at some locations in east-central Alaska, where June wildfires burned more than 500,000 acres of vegetation. By June 27, both the Taylor Complex (35 miles northwest of Tok) and the Solstice Complex (more than 50 miles northwest of Fort Yukon) topped 200,000 acres. On June 20, Tok's high of 95 degrees F came within 1 degree of its all-time record of 96 degrees F, established on June 15, 1969. Elsewhere, June 1-27 precipitation totaled just 0.31 inch (25 percent of normal) in Fairbanks. Farther south, record warmth accompanied another drier-than-normal week in southeastern Alaska. High temperatures in Juneau reached or exceeded 80 degrees F on 8 consecutive days from June 18-25, doubling its previous record of 4 days in a row established most recently from June 19-22, 1990. In addition, Juneau set a record for the greatest number of 80-degree days in a year (previously, 7 days in 1951). June 1-27 precipitation totaled 1.30 inches (43 percent of normal) in Juneau, following its driest May on record (0.84 inch, or 24 percent). Farther south, the weather in Hawaii was characteristic of typical dry-season conditions, featuring scattered showers in mainly windward locations. However, sporadically heavy showers reached some leeward sites, especially on the Big Island, where 24-hour totals in Honaunau reached 1.68 inches on June 23-24 and 1.22 inches on June 26-27.

The whole NorthWest (the real NorthWest, not the Seattle one) is having a nasty time with wildfires this summer.

http://tinyurl.com/3fbvj