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How ‘fire-generated thunderstorms’ make wildfires more deadly

Certain types of severe wildfire can create pyrocumulonimbus - something that Nasa calls the "fire-breathing dragon of clouds".

How ‘fire-generated thunderstorms’ make wildfires more deadly
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Pressivio’s Science desk has added the source report “How 'fire-generated thunderstorms' make wildfires more deadly” to its international monitoring stream.

Certain types of severe wildfire can create pyrocumulonimbus – something that Nasa calls the "fire-breathing dragon of clouds".

Original source: BBC Science and Environment
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