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Dixie Fire s huge pyro-cloud generated its own weather: lightning bolts, and even rain
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A thunderstorm-like mass known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud took shape over the Dixie Fire burning in Butte and Plumas counties on Monday, July 20, 2021./ PG&E
A massive thunderstorm cloud generated lightning strikes and rain showers Monday at a Northern California wildfire, the most recent example of the rare phenomenon NASA has dubbed “the fire-breathing dragon of clouds.”
The Dixie Fire one of a dozen wildfires burning statewide kicked up the thunderstorm-like mass known as a pyrocumulonimbus, which forms when scorched air and strong winds within a fire meet moisture in the atmosphere.
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