Heavy smoke rises from a wildfire in Irvine, California, in September 2024
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An alarming pattern of wildfires within the western US lofting smoke larger within the environment is about to worsen. As fires develop bigger with local weather change, they’re extra more likely to produce towering storm clouds that may ship smoke all the best way to the stratosphere.
“These really large wildfire-plume rise heights are the ones that are burning the most area and probably producing the most smoke,” says Derek Mallia on the College of Utah, who introduced the analysis on the American Geophysical…
