Rain that fell in Interior Alaska Monday night has helped dampen and stem the spread of the McDonald Fire, which was sparked over the weekend less than 30 miles from Fairbanks.
Anchorage is seeing some nice weather in the early part of June. A round of wet weather is coming this week, so it will be a little watering from Mother Nature.
Humans have been releasing greenhouse gas pollution into the atmosphere for a long time now, and this has heated up the surface of the planet. This, in turn, has caused a number of alarming changes in weather. Several current weather events exemplify the effects of climate change.
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