‘Fire-breathing dragon clouds’: a wildfire-fueled phenomenon explained
by Katharine Gammon from on (#627BV)
Feared pyrocumulonimbus clouds, akin to fire-triggered thunderstorms, are becoming more frequent as blazes rage
Nasa calls them the fire-breathing dragon of clouds".
Aerial images of the McKinney fire taken this week captured an increasingly common phenomenon: a nearly 50,000ft plume known as a pyrocumulonimbus.
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