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VANCOUVER — A combination of intense heat and drought conditions is causing wildfires in Western Canada to generate their own weather systems, experts say. Michael Fromm, a meteorologist with the United States Naval Research Laboratory, said the phenomenon is known as a pyrocumulonimbus firestorm and has been tracked this year in British Columbia, Saskatchewan Alberta, Manitoba and Ontario. Scientists have been tracking the storms since May. The first one was seen this season in Manitoba, Fro...

inciweb.nwcg.gov Large wildfires up and down the West Coast are increasingly creating weather patterns that trigger high winds and lightning, according to researchers at the US Naval Research Lab in Washington DC. Pyrocumulonimbus clouds (or pyroCB for short), are thunderstorms that are created over the top of large wildfires. PyroCB’s act like giant chimneys, funneling massive amounts of smoke into thunderstorms, creating the conditions for dangerous and volatile lightning. These clouds ar...

  VANCOUVER -- Wildfires in the British Columbia Interior are pumping so much hot smoke and ash high into the atmosphere, they are actually creating their own micro-weather. Meteorologists call the resulting phenomenon pyro-cumulonimbus clouds, and say they can spawn thunderstorms and lightning strikes which can then ignite more fires. “In many ways they look like a very severe thunderstorm from the ground and from space,” said Michael Fromm, a meteorologist with the United States Nava...

Robinson is charged with murder, murder in perpetration of a robbery and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury, Lake Superior Court records show. Robinson is being held without bond.

Ronald W. Robinson, 33, was being held Friday without bond on charges of murder, murder in perpetration of robbery and robbery resulting in serious bodily injury.

Officers responded to a building near Rimbach and Stateline avenues and found a male who was fatally shot.