The Beautiful Lie: Asking AI to Forecast Wildfire Smoke

Wildfires are a fact of life in the western US. Some years pass with little impact outside the immediate area. Others, like this one, are particularly bad, with wind-driven smoke arriving both from fires uncomfortably close and others hundreds of miles away. It's those years that I'm interested in. The Idea: AI-assisted Wildfire Smoke Forecasting Over the summer, I started…