Haze in Alaska
http://www.gi.alaska.edu/ScienceForum/ASF9/948.html
....gee, this looks familiar.
http://www.adn.com/front/story/384167.html
Smoke from Russian fires and dust from the Gobi Desert are combining to produce the haze drifting across Siberia's Kamchatka Peninsula in an
image taken from NASA's Terra satellite April 22, 2008. The cloud has caused hazy conditions around Anchorage and the Matanuska and Susitna valleys.
"This year, dust is only half the problem. Massive wildfires spanning a huge swath of southern Siberia in the Russian Far East broke out last week, contributing smoke to the mix and worsening an unusually dusty spring, Albanese said. One can't smell the smoke because of its lofty position in the sky, he said.
Russian news agency Itar-Tass reported this week that more than 100 forest fires were burning in four Russian regions, including in the Far East and Siberia. Officials declared states of emergency in some districts."
