The Thomas fire created a huge pyrocumulus cloud in December 2017. The Mountain View fire that largely destroyed the small town of Walker, Calif., this week gave rise to a similar phenomenon. (Al Seib ...

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. On May 8, a wildfire in Texas led to a very unusual weather event - a pyrocumulus cloud that ended up causing a thunderstorm cell.

Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Smoke and heat from a massive wildfire in southeastern Oregon are creating giant “fire clouds” over the blaze — dangerous columns of smoke and ash that can reach up to 6 miles ...

Pyrocumulus and lenticular clouds billowing up from the Mendocino Complex fires on Sunday, July 29, 2018. Pyrocumulus clouds, usually seen over volcanoes, have appeared over several California ...

A towering pyrocumulus cloud rose some 35,000 feet into the air as the raging Delta Fire threw its claws of flames across thousands of acres of bone-dry forestland in Shasta County. An aerial ...