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

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

Vic experienced the rare combination of extreme heat and severe thunderstorms, which sparked several new fires across the ...

Satellite imagery shows vast smoke plumes billowing across Bass Strait as Victorian authorities remain on high alert ahead of hot conditions forecast for Thursday.

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 ...

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 ...