#Q&A: Experts discuss extreme weather’s role in current and future wildfires
“#Q&A: Experts discuss extreme weather’s role in current and future wildfires” Satellite image of smoke from California wildfires on Aug. 19, 2020. Credit: European Space Agency Something unfamiliar to many Californians—an intense thunderstorm with widespread lightning strikes—spawned the all-too-familiar wildfires that have so far burned more than 1 million acres across the state’s north. That…