Wildfires and thunderstorms: complex interconnections spawned by climate change
Fires create their own weather: both nearby, and in distant places. Scientists are starting to unpick exactly how these complex connections weave together.
BY RICHARD A LOVETT
WILDFIRES AND THUNDERSTORMS
They used to call it the butterfly effect: the idea that weather patterns are so complex and hard to predict that a butterfly flapping its wings in China could perturb air motions enough to, weeks later, spark a tornado, in Kansas.
At the time, it was...
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