Wildfire smoke: What it's like to fly a plane through a plume, for research.
It was a "monster."
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It was a "monster."
Scientific American Record-breaking blazes in Australia spewed as many particles into the sky as a volcanic eruption Print Satellite view of burned land and and bushfires on Kangaroo Island, Australia on January 9, 2020. Credit: Alamy Advertisement Record-breaking wildfires in Australia at the start of the year caused an extraordinary weather phenomenon. They spawned a spree of towering fire-induced thunderclouds, which catapulted smoke 20 miles into the atmosphere. Almost 12 months later, some of that smoke is still drifting around the planet. These “pyrocumulonimbus” events, or “pyroC...