CNN: 70 Large Wildfires Burning Across the U.S. Right Now

RUSH EXCERPT:

CHINCHAR: “At a very fast rate. It may surprise you. Take the bootleg fire. Burned 200,000 acres so far. To put it in perspective, equivalent to a football feel, every five seconds for ten straight days. This is impressive when you talk about how rapidly fires are spreading. The bootleg fire is one of 70 large active fires across the country. Truly the vast majority of them in just the western states. This is a concern because drought has been what’s fueling them. 95% of the western states are in some level of drought, whether it be moderate drought up to exceptional drought. You can see the fires from space again taking a look here, you’ll see flashes there. That’s the lightning that clouds are able to generate on their own from the fires, basically heat lifts from fires, creating huge clouds that spread outward. The concern is then they can trigger their own weather. Not only produce additional lightning to create more fires, they can produce their own winds. Dry thunderstorms become a big concern.”