In his column this week, science writer Ned Rozell revisits the summer of 2004, which was haunted by relentless wildfires in Interior Alaska:
The Akasofu Building on the University of Alaska Fairbanks campus is bathed in smoke during the dramatic summer of 2004.
In summer 2004, a Vermont-sized patch of Alaska burned in wildfires. That hazy summer was the most extreme fire year in the half-century people have kept score.May 2004 was warmer than average in Interior Alaska, ground zero for Alaska’s fires for two reasons: Its summer heat and abundance of black spruce, which a firefighter once described as “gasoline on a stick.”The first hint of something unusual came May 31.
In late June and early July came an unusual five days of dry winds wheezing from the Brooks Range and the uplands of the Yukon River. The fires, born of lightning strikes in May and June, “were fanned into conflagrations,” Richmond wrote. “High temperatures were often 10 to 20 degrees cooler than they would have been under clear sky conditions,” Richmond wrote.
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