And this part was absolutely news to me.

Um, you know, weather forecasting is done by solving these very complex fluid dynamics equations.

That's why people that wanna be a meteorologist have to take so much calculus and dynamics and thermodynamics and physics.

Um, you know, I, I, as a director of a major program, I have students come to me all the time, "Oh, I love clouds.

I love hurricanes.

I love storm chasing.

I wanna be a meteorologist.

We had some great questions from a bunch of listeners wanted to know sleet, hail, and graupel, what's the difference? Susan Baxter is a first-time question asker and said, "Could you tell us about graupel? What exactly is it?"

Was there, like, a, a role in your life that was like-

No, it's so funny bec- particularly, a- a- and y- you know, I'm former president of the American Meteorological Society, and about only 2% of the AMS's membership is African American.

So, uh- Sciences in general at the time of, that I was growing up was not in my face at all.

My mother was a teacher, my dad was a teacher, but I grew up just with my mom, single parent.

So that's why I was always outside catching bees and, and the second's 'cause I was an only child with a single mom teacher.

Um, but my mom went to Tuskegee Institute, now Tuskegee University, and through my visits with her there, I learned about Dr. George Washington Carver, who was a scientist, uh, who looked like me, but he studied the peanut, and he did all these really interesting things with peanuts, and I just became fascinated by how many things he did with a peanut.

Later in life, I learned that Dr.

Yeah

What does that mean?

Yeah, it does.

I don't think we're dealing with as much of that with this particular event here in the Can- Canada and Eastern US, but absolutely those wildfires out in, in California that you're speaking of, they can create their own fire environments.

You can have...

I wrote an article about this a few weeks ago, firenados that, uh, can happen.

You can have what's called pyrocumulonimbus clouds.

Uh, these, these smoke plumes that come up from these very intense fires, uh, can essentially create these cumulonimbus-type thunderstorms, actually.

If you are healthy, if you are, have good breathing, you're a runner, you're a jogger, and you go out and, and run, will, will you be affected by this?

How is this exacerbating things?

So we've had a series of heat domes affect the US and Europe over the last several weeks, these large areas of high pressure that don't allow any clouds or rain to form.

Uh, there was a heat dome in Europe a couple of weeks ago that gave us, us triple digit temperatures, 100 and degrees or more in places like England and France.

Uh, last week, this same heat dome that's af- affecting Canada right now, uh, uh, we had 110, 113 degree Fahrenheit temperatures, Brittany, in Billings, Montana.

Triple digit heat in Montana.

That's how strong this heat dome is.

And so what happens is you've got this massive high-pressure area over the US and so, and over the northern US and Canada.

But how much do you think this could potentially impact the players playing and the people in the stands? Because a lot of people, they shelled out a lot of money for those tickets.