August 2012

摘要

Most areas from the Plains to the East Coast got a reprieve from July's record-shattering heat, especially during a two-week period in early to mid-August. However, heat did not disappear entirely, but instead shifted to the other side of the Rockies. As a result, wildfire activity exploded across parts of the West, burning more than 3.5 million acres of vegetation-much of it from Northern California to the northern Rockies.