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Wednesday, August 6, 2014

Pyrocumulus Cloud

Beaver Creek complex fire. There is an F-15 jet fighter aircraft in the mid-lower center of the picture.
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It's fire season and this one is a pretty big. It's down on the Oregon-California border and it's been burning for the last week  Big fires can sometimes generate big clouds - pyrocumulus clouds - which can sometimes get big enough to become thunderstorms. NASA has more photos. Via Posthip Scott.

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