Wildfire blowups, fire whirls, towering thunderstorms: When fires get large and hot enough, they can actually create their own weather. In these extreme fire situations, firefighters’ ordinary ...

In 2023 and 2024, the hottest years on record, more than 78 million acres of forests burned around the world. The fires sent ...

Wildfire blowups, fire whirls, towering thunderstorms: When fires get large and hot enough, they can actually create their own weather. In these extreme fire situations, firefighters’ ordinary ...

Scientists studying California’s devastating wildfires are using a powerful new radar system that could help them better understand how they spread and how firefighters should fight them.

What are some the ways wildfires interact with the atmosphere? What we call the actual fire front is the active burning zone. That’s the hot gases and the combustion and all the chemical reactions.

Wildfires can create their own weather, further spreading the flames − an atmospheric scientist explains how a huge pyrocumulus cloud rises over the Park Fire near Chico, Calif., on July 26, 2024.

New study says climate change is essentially two-thirds to 88% responsible for the conditions driving wildfire woes in the western United States.

Fire whirls As air rises in the atmosphere, it may encounter different wind speeds and directions, a condition known as wind shear. This can cause the air to spin.

OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A late-night fire at a metal finishing business in Oceanside on Tuesday sent plumes of smoke and chemical fumes into the air, triggering a major hazmat response and a day of ...

“We find that both exhibit strong linearly increasing trends, coupled with a large surge in magnitude between 330 and 220 million years ago,” the authors wrote. “Our findings suggest unexpected strong ...