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The bushfires in Australia are so big they’re generating their own weather – ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ thunderstorms that can start more fires, hacker news

The bushfires in Australia are so big they’re generating their own weather – ‘pyrocumulonimbus’ thunderstorms that can start more fires, hacker news


A diagram showing how pyrocumulonimbus clouds are formed.

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A diagram showing how pyrocumulonimbus clouds are formed.

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Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria

  • The Australiabushfires
  • are generating “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires.

  • Here’s how the process works and why it’s so dangerous.
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    The bushfires in Australia are now so big that they are generating their own weather, in the form of giant thunderstorms that start more fires, according to the Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria.

    “Pyro-cumulonimbus clouds have developed to altitudes over km in East #Gippsland this afternoon. These fire-induced storms can spread fires through lightning, lofting of embers and generation of severe wind outflows, ”the bureau tweetedon Monday.

    Satellite photography shows the intense smoke generating atmospheric clouds:

    Pyro-cumulonimbus clouds have developed to altitudes over km in East

    # Gippsland

    this afternoon. These fire-induced storms can spread fires through lightning, lofting of embers and generation of severe wind outflows (#VicWeather # VicFirespic.twitter.com/gZN6sC7meU

    – Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria (@BOM_Vic) December (************************************************************,

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    Intense fires generate smoke, obviously. But their heat can also create a localized updraft powerful enough to create its own changes in the atmosphere above. As the heat and smoke rise, the cloud plume can cool off, generating a large, puffy cloud full of potential rain. The plume can also scatter embers and hot ash over a wider area.

    Eventually, water droplets in the cloud condense, generating a downburst of rain – maybe. But the “front” between the calm air outside the fire zone and a pyrocumulonimbus storm cloud is so sharp that it also generates lightning – and that can start new fires.

    If powerful enough, apyrocumulonimbus storm can generate a fire tornado, which happened during the Canberra bushfires in (****************************************************. ********

    Scientists worry that “pyroCbs” are on the rise around the world, driven by warmer temperatures and more intense fires, Yale E reported. Their plumes are so strong that they can even shoot smoke into the (stratosphere) ****************, 6 to miles above the Earth’s surface.

    Here is a time lapse of a pyrocumulonimbus storm in action, from a different Australian fire:

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    )142 photos show the reality for firefighters and residents battling hundreds of deadly Australian bushfires that are raining ash onto major cities and destroying homes

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