NASA calls these pyrocumulonimbus events ‘the fire-breathing dragon of clouds’
published in the journal Nature found that between 2013 and 2021 there were an average of only 60 such events of the phenomenon NASA describes as “the fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”
At the smoky column’s peak, a white, cauliflower-like cloud forms, blocking out the sun. Suddenly, the smoke can be sucked into the chimney of hot air, exploding several kilometres into the sky. “Even from a distance you hear a roar like a freight train. The winds that were sucking into it were just amazing, the flames were amazing,” he said. “It was just incredibly powerful.”
Tornadoes are also a possibility, though they are rare. During brush fires near Canberra, Australia, in 2003, a twister of flames sped through the area at 30 kilometres an hour and contributed to the destruction of more than 500 properties.
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