California’s wildfires are creating giant lightning-filled volcanic eruption clouds in California

California is burning like hell right now. And the fires are more visually menacing than usual, thanks to the rare pyrocumulus clouds the flames are creating. The fires are burning so hot that they’re making their own pyrocumulus cloud systems, each up to five miles high. These clouds are also making firefighting efforts more difficult.  And more frightening, these … Continue reading California’s wildfires are creating giant lightning-filled volcanic eruption clouds in California