France has recorded its first known 'fire cloud' as extreme wildfires sweep across Europe. Also called a pyrocumulonimbus, the towering storm forms when intense heat pushes smoke, air and moisture high into the atmosphere.
It can generate powerful winds, lightning and fresh fires, allowing a wildfire to influence, and sometimes create, its own weather.
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