Scientists say they’re seeing fire clouds more often as climate change makes fire seasons longer and wildfires more intense.
“These storms are high-intensity, erratic, dangerous and hard to predict,” Flannigan said. “In Fort McMurray, there was a pyroCb that lit new fires 20 to 30 kilometers downwind.”On Feb. 7, 2009, a day that became known as “Black Saturday,” six different fire clouds broke out across the Australian state of Victoria in the midst of one of the continent’s worst wildfires. And in 2018, California’s deadly Carr fire was so intense it unleashed a rare fire tornado with 143 mph-winds.
“The fire itself has to be large enough to create this thermal bubble that is sufficient to break into the atmosphere and start this going,” Fromm said. According to Fromm, fire clouds are also being detected in parts of the world where they had never been seen before, such as South Africa, Portugal and Argentina.Interest in fire clouds has grown within the scientific world because they pose a significant risk to communities and firefighters. Once these fire-generated storms break out, there’s not much that emergency crews can do to stop them.
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