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Wildfires trigger huge hail and severe rain over distant lands

Massive blazes in California and Oregon increase the ferocity of thunderstorms in the central United States.
A forest burns in the Carr Fire at night

The 2018 Carr fire, which burnt nearly 100,000 hectares in California, helped to increase the intensity of thunderstorms well to its east. Credit: Terray Sylvester/Getty

Wildfires don’t just scorch earth and pollute skies: they can also increase the severity of storms, producing damaging rainfall and hailstones half a continent away1.

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Nature 610, 609 (2022)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-022-03284-5

References

  1. Zhang, Y. et al. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 119, e2207329119 (2022).

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