Articles About National Climatic Data Center

Author:
Mark McDowell
Posted:
09.19.2011

Is the Minnesota Forest Fire a Symptom of Climate Change?

An August 18 lightning strike in a northern Minnesota forest after an unusually hot summer started a month-long fire that brought a pall of smoke to Chicago nearly a month after the blaze started.  Driven by northwest winds, the fire in the 1.1 million acre Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness that straddles the Canadian border grew […]

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