/tags/pacific-northwest-national-laboratory Pacific Northwest National Laboratory en-US Copyright KUNC/Community Radio for Northern Colorado 2020 Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:48:02 GMT /regional-news/2022-10-26/west-coast-wildfires-bring-severe-weather-to-mountain-west-study-finds Researchers found that those wildfires increase the “occurrences of heavy precipitation rates by 38%” in our region, according to their work in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Wed, 26 Oct 2022 23:48:02 GMT /regional-news/2022-10-26/west-coast-wildfires-bring-severe-weather-to-mountain-west-study-finds Emma VandenEinde