Fire-produced thunderstorms and tornado-like fire whirls are more common than anyone realized, as high-resolution satellite images and data now show.
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Persistent heat waves and dry lightning are part of the problem. For firefighters, the erratic behavior gets dangerous quickly.
Extreme fire risk will overlap with weather patterns to create fire tornadoes more often under climate change.
Large, intense bushfires can pump so much heat into the atmosphere they form their own thunderstorm system. And that can make the weather on the ground even more dangerously unpredictable.
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Professor of Bushfire Dynamics, School of Science, UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Postdoctoral Researcher, Atmospheric Dynamics, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Adjunct Professor, School of Science at UNSW Canberra, UNSW Sydney
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Research associate, UNSW Sydney
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Professor of Meteorology and Climatology, University of California, Santa Barbara
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Research Scientist in Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University
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Principal Research Scientist in Extreme Weather, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Climate Change Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
