It’s been a quiet fire season in Alaska, as the state inches closer to wrapping up its smallest fire season in the past three decades.
as the state inches closer to wrapping up its smallest fire season in the past three decades.
“And it appears that it’s in mop-up mode right now, so basically they are putting out hot spots,” Bureau of Land Management spokesperson Beth Ipsen said. “It’s surprising how persistent low pressure in the eastern Bering Sea, Alaska Peninsula area, has been. And with that weather pattern being so persistent — that when it changes then it just comes back a couple of days later — that puts western Alaska, southcentral Alaska into a cloudy, occasionally rainy, and cool regime,” Stevens said.
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