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As well as demonstrating the massive extent of the smoke clouds across Western Russia, the satellite images indicate another interesting phenomenon: pyrocumulonimbus clouds.
YubaNet.com 2010
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Add smoke and fire to the mix and you have pyrocumulonimbus, an explosive storm cloud actually created by the smoke and heat from a wildfire.
From fire clouds to fire tornadoes, here's how wildfires can create their own weather Doyle Rice 2021
lucidityprevails commented on the word pyrocumulonimbus
Thunderstorm clouds formed directly over and because of large fires such as forest fires... this is the rarest and most extreme form.
January 11, 2007