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Fire-Breathing Smoke Storms Punch High Into the Atmosphere
As wildfires have sent palls of smoke streaming across large swaths of North America, some have spawned fire-breathing thunderstorm clouds. As is evident from the image above and others that follow, these pyrocumulonimbus clouds, or pyroCbs, offer a …