Dixie Fire s huge pyro-cloud generated its own weather: lightning bolts, and even rain
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A thunderstorm-like mass known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud took shape over the Dixie Fire burning in Butte and Plumas counties on Monday, July 20, 2021./ PG&E
A massive thunderstorm cloud generated lightning strikes and rain showers Monday at a Northern California wildfire, the most recent example of the rare phenomenon NASA has dubbed “the fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”
The Dixie Fire one of a dozen wildfires burning statewide kicked up the thunderstorm-like mass known as a pyrocumulonimbus, which forms when scorched air and strong winds within a fire meet moisture in the atmosphere.
Oregon s Bootleg Fire is generating its own weather
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Smoke from Western Wildfires Sends Haze Over East Coast as Clouds from Fires Create Own Weather
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Bootleg Fire grows 1,000 acres every hour creating giant fire clouds Associated Press and James Gordon For Dailymail.com © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo
The massive Bootleg wildfire in southeastern Oregon is spreading at a rate of 1,000 acres every hour with smoke and heat from the massive blaze is so intense that giant fire clouds are being created overhead.
The Bootleg Fire is now the largest wildfire burning in the U.S. at 241,496 acres, or 377 square miles larger than the area of New York City with active flames surging along a front 200 miles long. The inferno is just 7% contained.
The fire is moving at an astonishing rate, equivalent to an entire football field every 5 seconds covering an area larger than Manhattan s Central Park every 60 minutes.