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More record-breaking heat and wildfire smoke forecast for Alaska

Michelle Theriault Boots
Anchorage Daily News
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:00 UTC
Sunset obscured by wildfire smoke in AK
© Marc Lester/ADNThe sunset view is obscured by smokey air in Anchorage in this view from Flattop Mountain Saturday, June 29, 2019. Smoke from the Swan Lake wildfire near Sterling has affected the air quality in Anchorage in recent days.
After a brief cooldown Sunday night, a new wave of hot, dry weather is expected to stoke the Swan Lake wildfire burning on the Kenai Peninsula -- with continued smoke and record-breaking temperatures forecast for the Fourth of July holiday week across Southcentral Alaska.

And in Interior Alaska, a wildfire burned close to cabins and homes in the Fairbanks area Sunday.

Residents of a handful of subdivisions in the Murphy Dome area northwest of Fairbanks were told to evacuate early Sunday morning due to the 5,000-acre Shovel Creek Fire. About 52 homes are in the evacuation area, according to Fairbanks North Star Borough Emergency Operations. Three other subdivisions are under evacuation alert.

The Swan Lake fire has been burning in an area of the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge since June 5.

As of Sunday, the fire was at 68,060 acres with 17 percent contained, said Jonathan Ashford, a spokesman for the Alaska Incident Management Team. There are now 487 firefighters and other personnel working the fire.
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Intense snowfall in northeastern Italy a day after summer solstice

Robert W. Felix
Ice Age Now
Sun, 23 Jun 2019 20:02 UTC
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Snow has returned to the Dolomites . Intense snowfall on the Marmolada with -2 ° C . At the beginning of summer.

The Marmolada, the highest peak in the Dolomites at 3,343 meters, has been whitened by a heavy snowfall, as shown by the video.


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Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: The real story of French record heat temperatures 2019


Adapt 2030
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 15:18 UTC
paris
French temperature records date back to 1851, and during 1921, the all time hottest temperatures ever set stood until this week, but with the temperature gauge on top of an exposed roof on tiles no less, brings the all time hottest in 2019 into question, especially methods for collecting data and where temperature stations are located.

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Summer snowfall in the mountains of Georgia

Lilly Nice
The Gal Post
Mon, 01 Jul 2019 14:10 UTC
Monday, July 1, in Georgia at the mountain resort of Bakhmaro, the snow fell.
Monday, July 1, in Georgia at the mountain resort of Bakhmaro
As reported by gurianews, the snow started yesterday evening and continued to fall Monday morning.

According to the Director of the complex "Bakhmaro" David Sajaia, neither he nor the local old-timers do not recall that it snowed in July. He also added that many vacationers in the mountains were only too happy with the unexpected snow.
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As Europe swelters, snow falls in Finnish Lapland


Yle
Sun, 30 Jun 2019 10:57 UTC
A snow flurry hit Kilpisjärvi on Saturday.
© Traffic Management FinlandA snow flurry hit Kilpisjärvi on Saturday.
Snow fell in Kilpisjärvi on Saturday, and night frosts are possible in central Finland.

As most of the rest of Europe suffers record heat, Finland's weather is quite different. On Saturday, wet snow fell around 4 pm in the village of Kilpisjärvi. It's located in the municipality of Enontekiö at the top of Finnish Lapland's northwestern arm, close to the borders with Norway and Sweden.

There was little accumulation from the flurry, which was recorded by a traffic camera on European route E8, a road that extends from Turku, southwest Finland, up to Tromsø, northern Norway, also known as the Four Winds' Road. Near the village, the route reaches an elevation of 565.8 metres, the highest point in the Finnish road system.
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Spain: Catalonia battles worst wildfire in 20 years amid heatwave


Al Jazeera
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 21:24 UTC
Hilly terrain, high temperatures and strong
© Jordi Borras/APHilly terrain, high temperatures and strong winds have frustrated firefighters' efforts to contain the blaze
The still-raging blaze has devoured more than 5,500 hectares of land, forcing people to evacuate and killing animals.

Catalan firefighters are battling the worst wildfire the Spanish region has seen in 20 years as Europe swelters in the grip of an intense heatwave.

Hundreds of firefighters struggled to contain a wildfire in the northeastern region of Catalonia on Friday that has scorched more than 5,500 hectares of land and forced the evacuation of some 53 residents.

A day earlier, authorities warned that the blaze, which began on Wednesday afternoon, could easily devour 20,000 hectares if it was not contained.

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France records highest-ever temperatures as Europe melts in heatwave


BBC
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 20:48 UTC
arc triomphe
Hellish
France has hit its highest recorded temperature - 45.9C (114.6F) - amid a heatwave in Europe that has claimed several lives.


Comment: This is an astonishing 1.5 degrees higher than the previous all-time record.


The new record was measured in the southern town of Gallargues-le-Montueux. Before this year the previous record was 44.1C during a heatwave in 2003 that killed thousands.


Comment: Actually, the previous high was 44C, set in Toulouse in August 1923.

2003 was exceptional in that temperatures remained high all summer long, but it was never quite this intense. It is, however, forecast to cool off in Europe by next week...


Health Minister Agnès Buzyn has said "everyone is at risk".

France's weather service has issued an unprecedented red alert for four areas.

Those are all in the south, but most of the country remains on orange alert, the second highest level.
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June snowfall again blankets highway west of Okanagan, Canada

Doris Maria Bregolisse
Global News
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:13 UTC
snow highway
As travelers look to hit the roads for the Canada Day Long Weekend, the last thing on their minds is snow.

But that's what's coming down on the Okanagan Connector.

An unseasonably cold weather front caused temperatures to plummet at the Pennask Summit on Highway 97C, at 1,717 metres or 5,600 feet elevation, turning rain into snow on Thursday evening.

The area saw at least one rollover crash as the storm hit.

As darkness falls, the temperature could fall below zero turning snowy and wet roads into ice.


Comment: A week ago June snowfall hit the same highway in British Columbia for 2 days in a row.

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Unexpected summer snow hits W. Mongolia


Xinhua
Fri, 28 Jun 2019 11:08 UTC
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An "abnormal" summer snowfall has hit a western Mongolian province, a local meteorological department said Friday.

"An unexpected summer snow hit the southwestern mountainous parts of our province on Tuesday and Wednesday, with an average precipitation of 2-3 mm," said Jagsalag Khulibek, expert of Bayan-Ulgii Province's meteorological bureau, calling the snowfall an unusual weather condition.

The meteorologist explained that the unseasonal snow was brought by a strong cyclone from the Siberia.

Bayan-Ulgii Province is located in the west of Mongolia and shares borders with both China and Russia.
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2 feet of snow falls on first day of summer in Colorado

Jared Leone
fox13memphis.com
Sun, 23 Jun 2019 18:56 UTC
Colorado blasted with nearly two FEET of snow on first day of Summer
Colorado blasted with two FEET of snow on first day of Summer
Colorado residents simultaneously celebrated the summer solstice and the falling of snow Friday.

Snow began to blanket areas west of Denver, where some cities saw more than 2 feet of snow, according to the National Weather Service.

About 20 inches fell in Steamboat Springs, KCNC reported.

More snow is expected to fall throughout the weekend.

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