A pyrocumulus cloud from the Station fire looms over downtown Los Angeles in August 2009. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times) The first full weekend of September, with the Line fire 20,000 acres in size ...

Wildfires can create their own weather. File Photo by Peter DaSilva/UPI Aug. 1 (UPI) — Wildfires can create their own weather, further spreading the flames − an atmospheric scientist explains how a ...

Photographer Jesse Rockwell was able to capture a stunning timelapse of a pyrocumulus cloud forming over the Rey Fire near Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday, August 20. According to the American ...

California’s Line Fire is burning so intensely that it created its own weather. Dramatic pyrocumulus, or “fire clouds,” exploded over the fire Monday at the exact time a high-resolution weather ...

A: A pyrocumulus is a fire cloud. A pyrocumulus cloud forms from rising air that results from intense heating of the surface by phenomena such as wildfires or volcanic eruptions. The fires that ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KJCT) - On Friday, the Lee Fire created a weather phenomenon called a pyrocumulus cloud. Pyrocumulus clouds can make fighting fires like the Lee Fire extremely dangerous and ...

The wildfire that destroyed the historic Grand Canyon Lodge earlier this month has expanded to more than 105,000 acres, fire officials in Arizona said Thursday. A timelapse video captured on Tuesday ...

Extreme heat launched the Bear Gulch Fire across 2,000 additional acres of forest on Tuesday and Wednesday, pouring thick smoke on the Hood Canal communities of Hoodsport and Skokomish, Washington.

The first full weekend of September, with the Line fire 20,000 acres in size and only 3% contained, a resident of San Bernardino County described the sky as looking “exactly like a nuclear warhead had ...