NCAR|UCAR Meet the Experts: If you think predicting the weather is hard, try predicting wildfires!

What is it like to work at NCAR|UCAR?! Join us as we talk with experts to learn about what they do in their work, the highlights and challenges, and how it impacts us and our world. Then ask them anything you want to know about what it's like to do their jobs!

Wildfires are deadly and expensive, but also natural and inevitable. One key to living with wildfires while reducing their harm is to predict them with computer models. In some ways that is even harder than predicting the weather, because the weather forecast is only one piece of a good wildfire prediction! Join an NCAR scientist to explore how weather affects wildfires AND how wildfires affect weather. He will also describe new modeling technology called the Colorado Fire Prediction System, which NCAR recently developed for the state of Colorado.