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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A pyrocumulus cloud from the Bootleg Fire drifts into the air near Bly, Oregon on July 16, 2021. PAYTON BRUNI/AFP via Getty A ...

PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) – Have you seen a massive cloud develop over the top of a mantle of wildfire smoke? It looks just like a summer thunderstorm erupting over the Great Plains. If you’re from Oregon ...

ISABELLA, Minn. — The expanding Greenwood Fire is impacting thousands of acres across the landscape of northeastern Minnesota. But in truth, it's making a mark on the atmosphere above as well. On ...

Firefighters in the West are scrambling as wildfires threaten communities in Oregon, California and Washington, with Oregon's Durkee fire so large that it is creating its own weather. Twenty-four ...

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 ...

The Bootleg Fire's fast-moving flames have merged with another wildfire in the southern region of the state with the help of gusty winds, low humidity and high temperatures. The country's largest ...