{"id":11318,"date":"2013-07-09T08:49:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-09T14:49:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/?p=11318"},"modified":"2013-07-14T06:07:22","modified_gmt":"2013-07-14T12:07:22","slug":"stunning-image-captures-lightning-strike-from-wildfires-pyrocumulus-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/natural-disasters\/stunning-image-captures-lightning-strike-from-wildfires-pyrocumulus-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Stunning image captures lightning strike from wildfire\u2019s pyrocumulus cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"

Weather of course clearly affects wildfires but fires themselves can literally create their own weather.\u00a0 One such phenomena are pyrocumulus clouds and a photo from a wildfire in Alaska provides a stunning example.<\/p>\n

Pyrocumulus clouds are formed by fires or volcanos when the intense heat from the event rises from the surface.\u00a0 These clouds oftentimes look like dirty thunderstorm clouds directly over a blaze and can give rise to thunderstorm-like weather conditions.<\/p>\n

Lightning from these clouds can occur and in particular when coupled with a volcanic eruption<\/a> are absolutely amazing. \u00a0With wildfires, the strong winds and lightning can result in dangerous and unpredictable expansion of a fire.<\/p>\n

The Moon Lake Complex Fire<\/a> is currently burning in eastern Alaska and has scorched over 18,000 acres.\u00a0 Inciweb posted a photo of a pyrocumulus cloud over the blaze near Tok that let loose a stunning bolt of lightning.<\/p>\n

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June 2, 2013 – A pyrocumulus cloud above the Moon Lake Complex Fire in Alaska unleashes a lightning bolt. (Inciweb)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Weather of course clearly affects wildfires but fires themselves can literally create their own weather.\u00a0 One such phenomena are pyrocumulus clouds and a photo from a wildfire in Alaska provides a stunning example. Pyrocumulus clouds are formed by fires or volcanos when the intense heat from the event rises from the surface.\u00a0 These clouds oftentimes … Continue reading Stunning image captures lightning strike from wildfire\u2019s pyrocumulus cloud<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[422,650,147],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11318"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11318\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thorntonweather.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}