Taken from June 2004 issues of the NOAA/USDA publication "Weekly Weather and Crop Bulletin" (http://www.usda.gov/oce/waob/jawf/wwcb.html): June 13-19, 2004 Highlights: Farther north, a record-setting warm spell arrived across parts of southeastern and interior Alaska, helping to lift weekly temperatures as much as 10 degrees F above normal. The parade of Alaskan daily records started in Barrow with a high of 59 degrees F on June 16. The week ended with consecutive daily-record highs at several locations in southeastern Alaska, including Juneau (84 and 85 degrees F), Haines (81 and 83 degrees F), and Petersburg (81 and 82 degrees F). On June 18, Annette Island achieved 89 degrees F, tying its monthly record established on June 6, 1958, and June 9, 1969, followed the next day by an all-time record high of 93 degrees F. Annette Island's former all-time record was 90 degrees F, set on August 8, 1960. Month-to-date (June 1-20) Alaskan rainfall totaled just 1.15 inches (52 percent of normal) in Juneau, but reached 7.42 inches (198 percent) in Kodiak. June 20-26, 2004 Highlights: Mostly dry weather and record warmth prevailed across much of eastern Alaska, while near-normal temperatures and scattered showers overspread western parts of the State. Weekly temperatures averaged more than 10 F above normal at some locations in east-central Alaska, where June wildfires burned more than 500,000 acres of vegetation. By June 27, both the Taylor Complex (35 miles northwest of Tok) and the Solstice Complex (more than 50 miles northwest of Fort Yukon) topped 200,000 acres. On June 20, Tok's high of 95 F came within 1 F of its all-time record of 96 F, established on June 15, 1969. Elsewhere, June 1-27 precipitation totaled just 0.31 inch (25 percent of normal) in Fairbanks. Farther south, record warmth accompanied another drier-than-normal week in southeastern Alaska. High temperatures in Juneau reached or exceeded 80 F on 8 consecutive days from June 18-25, doubling its previous record of 4 days in a row established most recently from June 19-22, 1990. In addition, Juneau set a record for the greatest number of 80-degree days in a year (previously, 7 days in 1951). June 1-27 precipitation totaled 1.30 inches (43 percent of normal) in Juneau, following its driest May on record (0.84 inch, or 24 percent). June 27 - July 03, 2004 Highlights: Farther north, warm, mostly dry weather blanketed Alaska. Temperatures averaged as much as 4 F above normal in southeastern Alaska and generally ranged from 4 to 16 F above normal on the Alaskan mainland. By July 5, seven large, active wildfires in eastcentral Alaska were responsible for more than 1.9 million acres of charred vegetation, approximately 70 percent of the Nation’s year-to-date total. The largest fires were the Taylor Complex (nearly 490,000 acres about 35 miles northwest of Tok), Eagle Complex (more than 450,000 acres just 3 miles northeast of Eagle), Solstice Complex (about 320,000 acres more than 55 miles northwest of Fort Yukon), Boundary fire (312,000 acres only 20 miles northeast of Fairbanks), and Wolf Creek fire (200,000 acres about 80 miles northeast of Fairbanks). No measurable precipitation fell in Fairbanks during the first 5 days of July, following its second-warmest, fifth-driest June on record.