How bushfires can make their own weather

Intense bushfires can cause violent fire-generated storms, with lightning and severe winds.

Read more about the science in these articles:

  • How bushfires create their own ferocious weather systems, The Conversation
  • Future changes in extreme weather and pyroconvection risk factors for Australian wildfires, Nature

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