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Last updated 8/14/2019 at 8:21pm
Rocky Raybell
Rocky Raybell's "Williams Flats fire 26 seconds" as posted on flickr under Creative Commons copyright https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/legalcode.
Fire created thunder and lightening
Scientists flew through the clouds created by the Williams Flats Fire last week to study the first incidence of a "pyrocumulonimbus" cloud in continental United States this year.
The flight was one of the first ever to record data from inside such a cloud.
A Seattle Times story about it is here: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington...
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