I wonder if all that smoke/soot last summer might’ve served as CCN to some degree? The thunderstorms last summer were very intense..we met/exceeded severe criteria in terms of wind and/or hail more than a dozen times, which hasn’t happened since 2014. Even had hail in September, for the first time in my life.
Though it could’ve just been the troughy niño pattern (2014 was also the last summer with that degree of troughing). Still an interesting thought experiment, though.
Usually need troughing to advect smoke down here, and I doubt we’ll see much troughing this summer given the collapse of the niño regime (and likely onset of niña conditions).
Plus, is there any biomass left to burn in Canada after last year’s atrocity? The sheer amount of crap in the air was absurd given how far away the fires were. Yeah most summer days are hazy here, but not *smoggy* like that.
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