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4 November 2021 / Siberian Times
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Tundra is ablaze in Magadan region in out-of-season wildfire, complicated by wind and zero snow

Arman', Magadan, Russia

The wildfire started in a temperature of minus 20C, and is proving hard to extinguish because firemen cannot get water from frozen lakes and rivers. Normally the ground would be under thick snow by this time of year; this November several areas of eastern Russia, like its coldest territory Yakutia, say they are short of snow.


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Russia has suffered its most intense and the longest year for wildfires on record