The blaze produced a "pyrocumulonimbus cloud," a gigantic thunderstorm effect that can form when wildfires get so intense ...

This condensation produces more heat, leading to even more powerful convection, and the end result is known as a pyrocumulus (or, in more extreme cases, pyrocumulonimbus) cloud. These clouds often ...

The vast clouds of smoke from Australia's historic ... According to Nasa, fire-generated storms called pyrocumulonimbus injected large amounts of smoke into the stratosphere more than 16km above ...

And that is driving climate change which is adding to the frequency of megafires. Now we’re seeing those effects in “fire-clouds,” pyrocumulonimbus events. But there’s such a thing as “good fire.” ...