Posted on 08/17/2019 7:31:38 PM PDT by ransomnote
You’ve seen billowy cumulus clouds and wispy cirrus clouds, but odds are you’re not too familiar with fire clouds. Even scientists know less than what they'd like to about so-called pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds, which form when wildfires and agricultural fires unleash enough heat and moisture into the atmosphere to produce storms.
That changed on Aug. 8, when NASA’s airliner-turned-flying laboratory took to the skies over Washington state and flew a team of scientists straight into a pyrocumulonimbus cloud that had formed high over a wildfire in the eastern part of the state.
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Very Cool!
Saw one just yesterday, above the Sheridan Fire in Yavapai County AZ.
Cumulothingus cloud.
Absolutely nothing unusual. This is just physics of heat, humidity, and instability in the air. It was all caused by by great heat from the fire. The same natural thing happens from great heat on the ground from the sun that will then cause thunderstorms. Pics are nice though.
I well remember flying the “stubble fires” in England back in the seventies. This was in a glider. The farmers would burn their fields after harvest. They did this to get rid of unwanted plants in their fields and also return the minerals in the stubble to the ground for the next season. This was good. The lift we obtained from these stubble fires was insanely good. Most unfortunately England has now banned the practice due to the insane environmentalists.
Several years ago, the "Bear Creek" forest fire here in northeastern Texas produced pyrocumuli that were blown in a continuous stream, all the way to and out into the Gulf of Mexico. The NOAA Satellite views were quite impressive...
Thanks for a nice change of subjects! Methinks I'll go "take an APOD break" for a bit... '-)
TXnMA
I see it but I don’t thunderstand it.
Guess this is rare in places that don’t have wildfires a lot. I see this virtually every summer in interior Alaska.
*ping*
:o0
Columbus Bimbo
had to go and ruin an interesting topic by inserting their cult climate religion in the second paragraph
We had some thunderboomers rolling over for a few hours this morning.
The Sun heats the land where I live and the resulting lift in the air is wonderful. It draws moisture from the surface from sunrise until the air above is saturated and, with continued lifting, forms beautiful cumulonimbus clouds. Beautiful to look at but, no fun to fly near! Avoiding the storms, whether flying or golfing, is a daily chore here in the “Sunshine State!”
I would not trade a single day with any other state in our great country.
I never have seen a fire cloud but have flown around some awesome light shows when flying to deep South America.
The area is known as “the intertropical convergence zone.”
Or, the Amazon Jungle. LOL
This is absolutely stupid. Most people are seeing the yellow orb and believing that’s the headline reference. It’s just dumb: The orb is the Sun. The idiots at NBC saw an opportunity for clicks, no different than that stupid “missile trail” which was clipped from a longer video of an airliner coming into SF or LA from the Pacific.
Furthermore, I did some research: They’re trying to assess the effect of fires on climate in their quest for “climate engineering” to “cool the planet” of our human-induced warming.
The title needs to be amended with the clarifier “barf alert” or “fake news”.
When I was a child growing up in New Jersey not far from New York City, we had a large lawn, and every year in the fall my father would burn it once it turned brown. We would have buckets of water, several brooms, and a grass rake to keep the fire were it was supposed to be working.
Burning dead overgrowth used to be common here as well -- I've managed such fires myself, when I wasn't yet a teen.
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