Posted on 09/11/2022 9:38:36 PM PDT by thecodont
Like a scene out of an apocalyptic movie, a raging California wildfire pumped out a monster cloud towering 40,000 feet into the atmosphere on Thursday. As the Mosquito Fire tore across Tahoe National Forest, making a 5,000-acre run across the American River and pushing into the El Dorado County town of Volcanoville, the cloud grew and grew.
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Alan Brewer, a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, got a much closer look from a plane with a team of scientists who were flying along the side of the massive wall of sooty air to better understand fire behavior and its impacts.
“It really hit everybody in the plane pretty hard just how massive and destructive the fire was,” Brewer told SFGATE on the phone. “It was like flying right alongside the wall of the Grand Canyon.”
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Researchers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, San Jose State University and the University of Nevada conducted research on the massive fire cloud emitted by California's Mosquito Fire on Thursday.
These so-called pyrocumulus clouds are formed when air around a fire heats up, creating an updraft that pushes smoke, ash and moisture upward. They usually appear over a fire in the afternoon, when daytime temperatures peak and afternoon winds pick up. When fires are especially large, the clouds can grow so high into the freezing-cold atmosphere that ice crystals form in the top layer. These larger pyrocumulonimbus clouds can generate their own weather, including lightning, hail and strong winds. The clouds generated by the fire on both Wednesday and Thursday fell into this category. Both of these types of clouds are a sign of severe fire activity and growth on the ground.
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Ping.
Morels in the spring after the first rain. Yummy!!
Maybe we should apply Yuge quantities of CO2 at the fire fronts?
SC: You might want to ping this on CATASTROPHISM.
That’s where I want to go, Volcanoville, CA, in Earthquake County.
The Hayman fire in Colorado, started by a lying, jilted Forest Service worker IIRC, produced a smoke cloud big enough that it caused its own weather, which weather actually killed a person. Of course since the arsonist was a government agent, there were no extra charges for this death she indirectly caused. (Because it’s not a crime when they do it.)
We’re down to 192 at the moment (”Very Unhealthy”)
With these huge forest fires, there is not a peep about the carbon footprint they make. You try to get figures on the estimates of the yearly emission of CO2 from these fires and you get suspect figures. They want to put all the blame on cars.
Maybe that’s because it’s not without some merit, that
folks think Leftists are setting some of them to pound a
point home on global warming.
Hey, you, get off of my cloud!
Our elite rulers ban the common man from having a fire in their fireplace in the name of a scam (man made climate change) while the earth farts in their direction.
Mother Earth does not know we exist. She is constantly changing via earthquakes, storms, floods, volcanoes and so on doing more to our environment then man could ever do.
Yet our elite rulers would have us shivering in the dark and the cold so they can force us to obey their immoral laws and regulations all in the name of Mother Earth, it is like a religion for them.
Environmentalism perhaps the most evil religion that ever existed.
Reno isn’t Hell, but from here you can see Sparks, and smell California...
Hi neighbor!
"The planet isn’t going anywhere; we are! We’re going away! Pack your shit, folks! We’re going away and we won’t leave much of a trace either, thank God for that. Maybe a little Styrofoam, maybe. Little Styrofoam. The planet will be here, we’ll be long gone; just another failed mutation; just another closed-end biological mistake; an evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet will shake us off like a bad case of fleas, a surface nuisance."
- - George Carlin
How many of these wild fires would still happen if the mountains if their mountains and hills weren’t filled with homeless and illegals?
I lived there for 2 decades and usually heard each fire being started by one of those 2. Rarely was it lightning strikes or other natural causes.
/sarc
So you’ve been here trying not to choke down this stuff with too?
The AQI dropped to under 30 here tonight, long enough to take the trash out.
If you’re gaining weight in Reno lately, it might be from air so thick
that it comes with calories.
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