NASA Tracks Powerful Fire Clouds Rising Over Utah

NASA Tracks Powerful Fire Clouds Rising Over Utah

NASA is taking a closer look at one of the most unusual weather phenomena produced by wildfires: towering clouds of smoke and storm energy known as pyrocumulonimbus, or “fire clouds.” NASA Earth Observatory highlighted new observations from Utah this week as scientists use aircraft and satellites to study how these massive clouds form and push smoke high into the atmosphere. The research is part of a NASA-supported effort called the Injected Smo…