Asian air pollution may be changing U.S. weather patterns

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ir pollution in Asia may be changing weather patterns in the United States.

Increasingly intense storms in the United States might have an unexpected origin: Asian air pollution. Researchers from NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory have found that aerosols from across the Pacific strengthen extra-tropical cyclones—a type of storm system that drives much of our country's weather.

Watch this near three minute graphic from NASA - “The gathering storm” – that illustrates how pollution is borderless.