Posted on 09/24/2004 8:02:58 AM EDT by Momaw Nadon
On our way back home from a family drive on 8/29/04 my wife and I noticed a peculiar mushroom cloud just east of our home in Wellington, UT. We ran into the house and brought our both of our digital cameras and started snapping pictures. Within 2 hours there were three different explosions resulting in mushroom clouds.
We emailed a local news station; they looked into the pictures but to no avail. There were truck drivers parked at the gas station just down from our home, the drivers did not dare drive the road for fear of whatever was happening out there. Pretty scary afternoon, especially during this time of heightened alert in our nation.
--Brian Justice
that looks like a brush fire to me...
what on earth would cause that?! wherever did you find this?!
Wow, that is a great shot of an isolated cumulus formation. Downright eerie - Definitely something hot at the base. With the right conditions a large, localized fire can produce a pyrocumulus like these.
http://www.crh.noaa.gov/unr/rcfwm/2000/033000_firecu.htm
http://www.schools.ash.org.au/paa1/photogallery4.htm (see pics at the bottom of the page)