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Tag: Wildfires

Fires and smoke in eastern Russia (SIberia)

Siberia’s wildfires are bigger than all the world’s other blazes combined

August 11th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, Our Environment, World Community

“Siberia is so vast that huge fires can burn without threatening any major settlements, transportation systems or infrastructure — but are still part of a swath of infernos that together are larger than all the other blazes around the world,” Robyn Dixon reports.

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Firefighting in the Pacific Northwest, summer 2021

Enormous Bootleg Fire sends smoke entire length of Oregon

July 19th, 2021 Andrew Villeneuve Core Topics, National Defense, Public Planning

Via CBS: “There were about eighty active large fires and complexes of multiple blazes in the U.S., the National Interagency Fire Center tweeted late Sunday. The U.S. Forest Service said at least sixteen major fires were burning in the Pacific Northwest alone.”

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A rainy window in Seattle

Time for a change in the weather! Rain is on its way to the Pacific Northwest

August 27th, 2015 Andrew Villeneuve Weather

And we certainly do need it! From the National Weather Service: A change to wet and cooler weather is in store for Western Washington… Today

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