NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires

October 2, 2026 · 4:34 pm 1 sources

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• NASA Campaign Explores Clouds Spawned by Wildfires
  NASA · October 2, 2026 16:34
  The Wildhorse grass fire in eastern Idaho erupted with a massive pulse of smoke. No one had expected it, but the wildfire had launched what’s known as a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, or pyroCb. It was an elusive weather phenomenon that scientists on NASA’s INSPYRE (INjected Smoke and PYRocumulonimbus…