Wildfires can create their own weather conditions, including thunderstorms and tornado-like fire vortices – here’s how one atmospheric scientist explains it
Wildfires, fire vortices, towering thunderstorms: When fires grow large and hot enough, they can create their own weather conditions. In such extreme fire situations, the usual methods used by firefighters to directly control the fire do not work and the wildfires rage out of control. So how can a fire create weather? I’m an atmospheric… Read More »