https://www.insider.com/australia-bushfires-generate-pyrocumulonimbus-thunderstorm-clouds-2019-12
- The Australia bushfires are generating “pyrocumulonimbus” clouds, which create their own thunderstorms that can start more fires.
- Here’s how the process works and why it’s so dangerous.
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The bushfires in Australia are now so big that they are generating their own weather, in the form of giant thunderstorms that start more fires, according to the Bureau of Meteorology in Victoria.
“Pyro-cumulonimbus clouds have developed to altitudes over 16km in East #Gippsland this afternoon. These fire-induced storms can spread fires through lightning, lofting of embers and generation of severe wind outflows,” the bureau tweeted on Monday.
Satellite photography shows the intense smoke generating atmospheric clouds:
Bureau of Meteorology, Victoria✔@BOM_Vic
Pyro-cumulonimbus clouds have developed to altitudes over 16km in East #Gippsland this afternoon…
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Exposing the Big Game 
I’m really disturbed by this. On tonight’s news, they had a report about koalas that had been rescued, desperate for water, and thirstily drinking from a bottle just like a human. I hope some of them will survive.
But where is the government? The prime minister is on vacation in HI, New Year’s celebration went on as per usual, and my husband was saying it was the first time he’d heard mentioned that the country’s army or national guard was mobilized to help fight the fires! 😦