A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, creating France's first recorded pyrocumulonimbus cloud. The resulting lightning strikes ignited new fires beyond the original burn area.
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A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its towering smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said.
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A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said.
Oh gods... "French wildfire created country's 1st recorded pyrocumulonimbus cloud, igniting more fires" https://www. pbs.org/newshour/world/french- wildfire-created-countrys-1st-recorded-pyrocumulonimbus-cloud-igniting-more-fires
A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original blaze, French officials said. Put another way, that means the inferno was no longer simply being propelled by the weather. It was making its own. The thundercloud also produced violent, erratic winds capable of driving th