Pyrocumulonimbus clouds: clouds created by intense heat
With the wildfires continuing to burn in California, you may have seen claims that wildfires can create their own weather. It ...
Q&A: Causes, spread and solutions for California's wildfire crisis
As wildfires relentlessly sweep across Southern California and other parts of the world, Manzhu Yu, an assistant professor of ...
Will flags in Virginia be at half-staff or full-staff for inauguration?
Gov. Youngkin issued an order on the topic Saturday morning. House Speaker Johnson ordered flags at the U.S. Capitol to be ...
Opinion
Hosted on MSN15dOpinion
Lessons from the Los Angeles fires
WATCHING the continuing media coverage of the Los Angeles firestorm reminded me of the fire that swept the depressed area behind the Paco railroad station in Manila during the 1970s. The house where I ...
WKRG17d
Fire tornadoes or fire whirls: How they form (VIDEO)
Horizontal turbulent flow is then shifted vertically thanks to this strong updraft, and the column of air stretches all the way to the base of a thunderstorm cloud. A pyrocumulonimbus cloud is a ...
Times Union17d
Why wildfires started by humans, cars and power lines can be more destructive and harder to contain
Atmospheric instability during some of these fires also led to the formation of pyrocumulonimbus clouds – massive, fire-fueled thunderheads that can generate their own weather, including ...