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This week we talk about fire weather and wildfires! It's a hot topic. We also visit a somewhat Halloween appropriate fun paper from the Journal of Experimental Biology.

• National Fire Danger Rating Index
• Mesonet Fire Weather Page
• Burning Index
• Ignition Component
• Spread Component
• Fuel Moisture
• Keetch-Byram Drought Index

• It's Halloween Fun Paper Time! Hands, guitar tuners, and accelerometers.
• Horns, Joshua, Rebekah Jung, and David R. Carrier. "In vitro strain in human metacarpal bones during striking: testing the pugilism hypothesis of hominin hand evolution." Journal of Experimental Biology 218.20 (2015): 3215-3221.

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