Weather Blog: Where there's smoke, there's fire

22 views · Published 25 February 2015 · 1:18 · Indexed 10 November 2026

Channel: Gulf Coast News · 2015 · News & Politics

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Targeting the location of wildfires by tracking smoke plumes is an inadvertent bonus of Doppler weather radar. This makes radars an even more useful tool beyond their storm tracking capabilities. Most especially in a state like ours where more than 3,300 wildfires burn annually.

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