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I live in Tucson, Southern AZ, this years wildfires and the weather impacted us a lot. Particularly with the smoke and my son's Asthma. I had stumbled across your Satellite and Product Operations with the Hazard Mapping System of Wildfires and Smoke Tracking back in June. I had noticed that almost the entire mountain spine of Mexico was engulfed in wildfires, practically to the US border, most of this summer. I was wondering if those wildfires also had an effect on the weather. We didn't have much of a monsoon this year. 2020 was a very bad year for wildfires as the fires where from Southern Mexico into Canada, across most of the southern US and even the Caribbean. Smoke from the California wildfires had reached Europe in September. Are there any discussions on the affects all that the smoke and ash might have on the weather and for how long? I know that volcano's tossing up massive amounts of smoke, ash and other gasses effect the weather. I'm sure that the amount of smoke and ash from the wildfires should have an effect on this years and early next years weather too. It would be interesting to know if the smoke and ash, combined with either El Nino, La Nina or the Enso conditions could cause significant weather pattern changes. Or bring heavy rains and floods to some regions. Do you have any thoughts on this?