Fire whirls are intense, self-sustaining vortices of flame that arise when buoyant hot gases converge and impart rotation to the fire plume. The interplay of vorticity, circulation and buoyant ascent ...

Substantial fires can make their own weather – and do it in several ways. The most common weather phenomena wildfires can create include pyrocumulus clouds, fire tornadoes and smoke clouds that cause ...

British Columbia’s fire service has released footage of a “fire whirl” spinning over a lake during an out-of-control wildfire. Strong winds, high fire intensity and air mass instability led to its ...

Firefighters in British Columbia continue to battle hundreds of wildfires devastating the Canadian province, and officials shared video of a "fire tornado" that formed last week during extreme weather ...