Dossier
Saumos
Coverage of Saumos in the Nexus archive.
- French wildfire created a monster cloud, unleashing lightning that ignited more fires
A wildfire in southwest France generated a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, producing lightning that ignited new fires and erratic winds. The rare phenomenon, documented in extreme fires in North America and Australia, caused over 420 square kilometers of destruction, damaged/destroyed 240 homes, and forced 220,000 evacuations in Gironde.