California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the exact time a high-resolution weather ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pyrocumulus cloud from the Bootleg Fire drifts into the air near Bly, Oregon on July 16, 2021. PAYTON BRUNI/AFP via Getty A ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Have you seen a massive cloud develop over the top of a mantle of wildfire smoke? It looks just like a summer thunderstorm erupting over the Great Plains. If you’re from Oregon ...

ISABELLA, Minn. — The expanding Greenwood Fire is impacting thousands of acres across the landscape of northeastern Minnesota. But in truth, it's making a mark on the atmosphere above as well. On ...

The Bootleg Fire's fast-moving flames have merged with another wildfire in the southern region of the state with the help of gusty winds, low humidity and high temperatures. The country's largest ...

A: A pyrocumulus is a fire cloud. A pyrocumulus cloud forms from rising air that results from intense heating of the surface by phenomena such as wildfires or volcanic eruptions. The fires that ...

WASHINGTON — In late July 2023, a lightning storm ignited a new wildfire in the northern Cascade Mountains of Washington State. The Sourdough Fire was initially small, roughly 500 acres. A week later, ...