Massive wildfires bring effects to climate to upstate New York [View all]

The cloudy, milky sky this week across upstate New York and much of the northeastern United States could become increasingly more frequent as wildfires become more powerful.

"We will likely see this sort of thing increasingly often," said Nick Bassill, the director of research and development at the UAlbany Center for Excellence. "Right now is one of the worst droughts across the western United States."

Bassill said the massive wildfires, made worse by man-made climate change, can affect what's happening on the other side of the continent.

"Sometimes when you have really big fires out west, those are very strong fires driven by really intense heat and that helps to inject smoke high into the atmosphere," he said.

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