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California's fires are so intense, some make their own thunderstorms. NASA calls the formations the 'fire-breathing dragon of clouds.'
The pyrocumulonimbus cloud can generate smoky rain, lightning, and in some cases, tornadoes (someti…
Susie Neilson  Â
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Wildfire season continues to scorch California as Chaparral Fire ignites in San Diego County and spawns 'firenadoes', videos show
The fire ignited on Saturday afternoon in San Diego County. California wildfires have burned nearly…
Morgan Keith  Â
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Wildfires in Northern California led to a rare 'firenado' — a fire and tornado combination — that tore through the region
The National Weather Service issued a fire tornado warning as wildfires raged in Loyalton, Californ…
Zoë Ettinger  Â
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A wildfire created a rare phenomenon knows as a 'firenado' along the Colorado River
On the day of the Blythe firenado, the temperature outside hit 110 degrees in Blythe with winds hit…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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A 'firenado' is a real thing - here's how the dangerous phenomenon forms
This is a "firenado," or fire tornado. It formed out of wildfires in Arganil, Portugal. Firenados a…
Alyssa Pagano  Â
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A California firefighter says his wallet was stolen from his department vehicle while he was battling blazes
California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said the firefighter's bank account was "drai…
Kelly McLaughlin  Â
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Meet California's new normal: more lightning, 30% less rain in wildfire season, and double the number of fire-risk days
California has seen nearly all its largest wildfires ever in the last 20 years because of climate c…
Susie Neilson  Â
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Every region of the US suffered record-breaking extreme weather in 2020. Find yours on the map.
These disasters affected you if you inhaled the smoke, shivered in the polar vortex, took shelter f…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen  Â
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Smoke from California's wildfires is drifting across the US to New York - and it's making pretty sunsets
Her image is hazier and more orange-colored than is typical for the city. This may be because the s…
Dave Mosher  Â
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Three dangerous fires are burning across California, engulfing San Francisco in smokey haze and sending flames across an L.A. freeway
To the south, on the outskirts of Los Angeles, two smaller fires are creating havoc for drivers and…
Hilary Brueck,Skye Gould  Â
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Wildfire evacuees are returning to the destroyed California town that's 'like moving backing back into a funeral home.' See the wreckage in a 360-degree video.
The flames from the Camp Fire are gone, but they've left an eerie scene of ashen devastation in Par…
Hilary Brueck  Â
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The wildfire in Malibu has hit a former nuclear research site, and some activists are worried about radiation in the smoky air
In the 1940s, the US government began using Santa Susana to test nuclear weapons and rockets. The f…
Peter Kotecki  Â
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This Is The Only Beautiful Architecture Left In Crumbling Detroit
Though Detroit has recently been looking like it was hit by a convoy of mile-wide firenados, there …