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Pyroconvective events

Jul 2nd, 2021 | By Ophelia Benson
Category: Notes and Comment Blog

So…it looks as if this phenomenon could set whole continents on fire.

Storm-producing fire clouds threw out hundreds of thousands of lightning strikes over wildfire-stricken British Columbia and northwestern Alberta provinces in Canada Wednesday and Thursday, bewildering meteorologists. https://t.co/QnyZ9yPq7G

— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 1, 2021

Lightning strikes cause fires. The horrific fire season in California last year was partly caused by thousands of lightning strikes.

"This is a literal firestorm, producing *thousands* of lightning strikes and almost certainly countless new fires."

Read more: https://t.co/R7mUV6aglI pic.twitter.com/QwlAMRcIg0

— SFGATE (@SFGate) July 1, 2021

Fire clouds spark 710,117 lightning strikes in western Canada in 15 hours: The numbers shared by @COweatherman from a lightning siege in western Canada are mind blowing. https://t.co/hHUAd2OIxf via @SFGate pic.twitter.com/76dC8VAduR

— Amy Graff (@amyjeangraff) July 1, 2021

This is not good.

H/t Your Name’s not Bruce?

One Response to “Pyroconvective events”

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tigger_the_wing
July 3, 2021 at 1:15 am

This is completely terrifying. I remember the fear of lightning from living in Australia. OK, so it was awe-inspiring to watch lightning flashing within and between clouds, as if there were some tremendous battle taking place in the sky between gods and dragons; but the fear that, at any moment, a lightning bolt might earth itself, thus starting a devastating fire, was ever present.