One seasoned fire official described the Line Fire's plume as "the most impressive fire behavior, smoke column I've ever seen ...

On a basic level, this makes sense: By that point, the Line fire had already released more energy into the atmosphere than a ...

But pyrocumulus clouds also ingest large amounts of smoke and ash from the fires that form them, making these clouds a lot ...

Intense Blazes Supercharged Afternoon Convective Clouds Over Southern California Southern California witnessed the formation ...