A pyrocumulus cloud from the Station fire looms over downtown Los Angeles in August 2009. (Don Bartletti/Los Angeles Times) The first full weekend of September, with the Line fire 20,000 acres in size ...

A: A pyrocumulus is a fire cloud. A pyrocumulus cloud forms from rising air that results from intense heating of the surface by phenomena such as wildfires or volcanic eruptions. The fires that ...

A pyrocumulus cloud, or "fire cloud," erupts from the Line Fire in San Bernardino County, as viewed in a NASA Landsat satellite image on Tuesday, Sept. 10, 2024. Images from a NASA satellite show a ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Multiple fires are burning on the Western Slope, and a weather phenomenon known as fire clouds caused one of the fires to spread across a highway, and it is now among the largest ...

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KKCO) - On Friday, the Lee Fire created a weather phenomenon called a pyrocumulus cloud. Pyrocumulus clouds can make fighting fires like the Lee Fire extremely dangerous and ...

SPOKANE, Wash. -- A fast-growing fire cast a long shadow across the Inland Northwest. Framed by the setting sun, a 4 News Now viewer in Colbert captured the gigantic plume of smoke and cloud on ...

What is a pyrocumulus cloud? Flames from the Dragon Bravo Fire near the Grand Canyon are creating a massive cloud of smoke, known as a pyrocumulus cloud. FOX 10's Krystal Ortiz explains what this is ...