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1822: Excerpt from the Logbook of the U.S. Schooner Shark LCDR M.C. Perry commanding. Remarks: Sunday, August 25 No remarkable event this day, Wind from the Southward and Westward and, ....
United states. reporter: take a trip across alaska this summer from the iceless north to the smokey south. you ll see that when it comes to alarming changes, the last frontier feels like the first in line. this is insane. reporter: fire season used to end on august 1st, like rainy clockwork. but it is so hot and dry the swan lake fire has been burning for three months. and the most populated part of the state is swallowing more smoke than ever before. if you look at the actual observations we ve had more than twice as many smokey hours in 2019 than any other season and almost as many as all other years combined. reporter: when anchorage is hotter than key west on the 4th of july? it can turn the steady drip of a glacier into something much more dramatic. that was an event last month at ....