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BOULDER, Colo. — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has a new tool to gather real-time weather data while wildfires are actively burning.
Physical Sciences Laboratory research meteorologist Andy Hoell. The data will only become more important as the climate gets warmer. Year-round wildfire seasons are going to become the norm“We are projected to have more extreme events,” said Hoell. “As a result of that, we need to have better forecasts in order to be able to foresee them.”The drone is especially helpful in an environment like Colorado, where the weather is so erratic near the mountains.
incident meteorologists, who go to the scenes of active wildfires to make forecasts about the immediate future of these fires. Those forecasts can help keep first responders in the right spot to deal with the fire and keep them out of harm’s way.The drone team is mobile, and the nimble drone can be deployed wherever
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