Blazes that generate such stormy conditions can be nearly impossible to put out and pose special dangers to firefighters. By Austyn Gaffney Officials said on Thursday they feared as much as half the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pyrocumulonimbus derives its name from the Ancient Greek word pyr, meaning "fire," and cumulonimbus, also known as a thunderhead ...

The smoke plume (gray) is feeding the pyrocumulonimbus cloud (white). “PyroCb are like large chimneys, transporting a large quantity of smoke into the stratosphere,” explained Dr. David Peterson. When ...

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Aircrew and support from the 146th Airlift Wing at Channel Islands Air National Guard Station, California accomplished 4 retardant drops between November 13-14, 2018 over the Woolsey Fire just a few ...

These wildfire-induced thunderstorms have been occurring above blazes in the United States and Canada this summer. How do they form, and why are they significant? Read on... As wildfires have sent ...

The bushfires tearing through Australia are everyone’s problem, according to National Aeronautics and Space Administration researchers who predict that smoke from the blaze will make its way around ...

When a wildfire reaches epic proportions, it changes everything around it – even creating its own thunderclouds. Scientists around the world are racing against time to understand them. One afternoon ...

In this photo taken with a drone provided by the Bootleg Fire Incident Command, a pyrocumulus cloud, also known as a fire cloud, is seen over the Bootleg Fire in southern Oregon on Wednesday, July 14, ...