Pyrocumulonimbus Cloud

I was driving back after a walk in the hills & rounded a bend I saw this amazing cloud... "Wow a pyrocumulonimbus cloud!" I had never seen one of those in person. This was an awesome cloud and is just over that hill there! An amazing phenomenon. ...If only I have the good camera with me... Then you think... Aw gee... there's a big fearsome fire under that thing... that is a lot of suffering. That was the first one of the year to spawn "fire tornados" a rare event that the press was all over... in the few months since then they have become almost common... This was the blow up of the Laytonville fire... just about 20 miles away, and the beginning of a lot of smoke.

Pyrocumulonimbus
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