Scientists just recreated a wildfire that made its own weather

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Oct 2, 2025, 10:57 pm125 ptsTrending
In 2020, California’s Creek Fire became so intense that it generated its own thunderstorm, a phenomenon called a pyrocumulonimbus cloud. For years, scientists struggled to replicate these explosive fire-born storms in climate models, leaving major gaps in understanding their global effects. Now, a new study…

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