Florida Max Road Fire in Broward creating towering pyrocumulus clouds

Heat and humidity over South Florida helped a blaze build towering pyrocumulus clouds seen by NOAA satellites, with rain ...
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Russian rivers are creating mysterious new clouds in the Arctic, scientists discover

Researchers have identified a Russian influence on Arctic cloud and ice information, as published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment. After investigating an understudied region of the ...
The Washington Post

A surprising source of clouds in Antarctica: Penguin poop

The clouds in Antarctica might be fueled by penguin poop. Penguin poop — sorry, penguin guano — is creating clouds in Antarctica that could be affecting local temperatures, according to new research ...
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Penguin poop is creating more clouds. Here’s how

There is no shortage of penguin poop in Antarctica. In fact, you can see it from space, if you know where to look. Researchers often use satellite observations to study Adélie penguin populations and ...
Orange County Register

‘Fire clouds’ over Arizona and Utah wildfires are creating their own erratic climate

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two wildfires burning in the western United States — including one that has become a “megafire” on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — are so hot that they’re spurring the ...
WRAL

Kilauea creating "fire clouds"

We've seen lava bombs, ash clouds and rivers of lava and recently we've seen a new kind of volcanic phenomenon called pyrocumulonimbus "That is just a thunderstorm cloud that is enhanced or just a ...
SpaceNews

NASA Mission Seeks to Understand Bright Night-Shining Clouds by Creating One

Since the late 1800s, observers have searched the polar skies for elusive, high-flying clouds that shine in the darkness. These polar mesospheric clouds, or PMCs, are wispy swarms of ice crystals that ...