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AI continues to prove successful as an important tool for fire weather forecasters, both with thunderstorm prediction and increasing situational awareness for active fires caused by lightning.

Midwestern states are seeing temperatures rising above average just as fall begins. Just a week after the first day of fall — Sept. 23 — highs reached the 90s in at least 15 states between Arizona and Minnesota and even approached 100-degree days up to the Iowa and Nebraska border over the weekend, The Washington…