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NASA infrared imagery sees landfalling Jimena, weak Kevin and pyrocumulus clouds

It's unusual to see towering clouds that are created from smoke and fires, but that's what showed up in the latest satellite imagery from NASA, when also capturing powerful Hurricane Jimena and Tropical Depression ...

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Smoke From Station Fire Blankets Southern California

Triple-digit temperatures, extremely low relative humidities, dense vegetation that has not burned in decades, and years of extended drought are all contributing to the explosive growth of wildfires throughout ...

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Scientist seeing clearly the effects of pyrocumulonimbus

Wildfires can wreak widespread havoc and devastation, affecting environmental assets lives, property and livelihoods. Meteorologist Mike Fromm of the Naval Research Laboratory, in collaboration with several ...

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created Aug 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Fires and Smoke in Russia

Intense fires continued to rage in western Russia on August 4, 2010. Burning in dry peat bogs and forests, the fires produced a dense plume of smoke that reached across hundreds of kilometers. The Moderate ...

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created Aug 05, 2010 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (28) | comments 0


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