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 ...

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 ...

Extreme heat from wildfires can create pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which can spark new fires miles away. These clouds can exacerbate fire spread by generating erratic winds and even sparking new ...

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 ...