With the wildfires continuing to burn in California, you may have seen claims that wildfires can create their own weather. It’s true!

Dry lightning strikes have been blamed for causing a number of bushfires across Victoria. But what's the difference between ...

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 ...

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.” ...

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 ...