With a historic wildfire season in the West last year (2020), the importance of forecasting smoke movement came to the forefront. In mid-September, record wildfires in both California and Colorado ...

I talked with a modeling expert at NOAA about how our best weather models handle the smoky sky. Not all of our favorite weather models have modules in them to forecast the motion and thickness of ...

Well, other than staying indoors, there is no getting away from it completely, but there are areas that have lighter concentrations of smoke. A computer forecast model shows those spots. A computer ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Wow! Check out the expanse of Western ...