By Jeff Masters 6 July 2015 (Weather Underground) – Germany broke its all-time heat record on Sunday July 5, when the mercury soared to 104.5°F (40.3°C) at the official Kitzingen station in Bavaria. According to the German weather service’s Facebook page, the record is now confirmed as official. The previous official national heat record recognized […]
By Jeff Masters 3 July 2015 (Weather Underground) – Brutally hot conditions fried portions of three continents during the first three days of July, and four nations have already set all-time July national heat records this month: the Netherlands, the U.K., Thailand, and Colombia. Below is a break-down of the July national heat records set […]
Moscow, 25 June 2015 (Prensa Latina) – The wave of fires in the republic of Buryatia in Siberia, moved about two thousand hectares in the last 24 hours, and already covers 13 thousand square kilometers, confirmed the territorial forestry agency. At least 29 sources were located in 11 districts and in the outskirts of the […]
By Paul Huttner 6 July 2015 (Minnesota Public Radio) – What next, locusts? Monday morning’s downpours (and flash floods in the east metro) got our attention early. Just when you thought it was safe, the core of the dense smoke plume from over 600 wildfires in Alaska and western Canada arrived. The dense white smoke […]
By David Sim 7 July 2015 (IBT) – Every summer, the Yellow Sea turns green as a thick carpet of algae covers the beaches of Shangdong Province, eastern China. People living in Qingdao and nearby coastal towns have grown accustomed to their beaches looking more like verdant meadows every July. Children play in a carpet […]
By Adam Justice 7 July 2015 City officials in Los Angeles have said they don’t have enough water to irrigate all the trees in the city, so they are cutting down roughly 14,000 of those that are dead or dying from drought. ”It’s difficult to say the specific cause of death. But the drought is […]
Total fires in 2015 Alaska: 640Canada: 4526 Total acres burned in 2015 Alaska: 2,950,572 acresCanada: 5,315,200 acres (2,150,971 ha) Alaska: AICC Situation Report (Predictive Services – Intelligence/Reports) Canada: Current Fire Data Graphs Canada: National Wildland Fire Situation Report Global Daily Active Fire Products and Interactive Fire Maps Technorati Tags: Alaska,Canada,North America,wildfire,forest fire,drought,heat wave,global warming,climate change
By Michele Berger 6 July 2015 (weather.com) – “There are so many different ways that people will feel the impact of climate change,” says David Easterling, Ph.D., of NOAA’s National Center for Environmental Information. Sea-level rise and flooding. Extreme heat and drought. Extreme precipitation events. Which events matter and how much depends on which part […]
By Susan Wyatt5 July 2015 (KING 5 News) – Smoke from wildfires in British Columbia was streaming into Western Washington on Sunday, causing an eerie yellow cast to the skies. More than 50 new wildfires were sparked over this weekend alone. Officials with the Paradise Fire said local 911 dispatchers in the Port Angeles area […]
5 July 2015 (CBC News) – More than 50 new wildfires have sprung up across British Columbia over the weekend, putting people out of their homes or on evacuation alert, resulting in several communities declaring states of emergency. Smoke from the fires cast an early morning haze over Vancouver and an eerie pall over Victoria […]
