Station Fire Smoke Plume from Irvine
August 31st, 2009 by Kelson. Posted in General and tagged for clouds, fire, Irvine, smoke, Station Fire
Station Fire Smoke Plume from Irvine, originally uploaded by Kelson.
About 2:00 in the afternoon today, in a park in the Quail Hill area of Irvine. Roughly 50 miles away from the fire, perpendicular to the wind (thankfully!)
That puffy plume looks a lot whiter than the rest, which is clearly smoke, making me wonder if it’s a cloud that’s formed above the fire somehow. Edit: And literally seconds after I post this I spot the term pyrocumulous in another window. So, yeah, it’s a cloud produced by the air heated by the fire. The Wikipedia article has a picture of a cloud produced by this same fire a few days ago.
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