From Anchorage: Today when out and about my friends with the dog I walk told me about Siberia burning. Apparently we can smell it here and it is obstructing our views of the mountains, which were so clear only a week ago. I didn't see mention of it made on U.S. news this evening, but the Guardian has it.

We had two warm days which I wrote about in the "Dogs in Cars" thread. Now we've got cooler weather and rain. That is probably washing some of the Siberian ash out of the air, but we'll see.