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Pyrocumulus Clouds - King fire (N. California)

submitted by eric3579

9 years 7 months 2 weeks ago

Time-lapse photography from Bass Lake Road captured a spectacularly violent cloud formation of the King fire in El Dorado County Sept. 17, 2014. The sequence is 502 images taken at 1/30s every second. -yt

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If we don't get any water the whole state may end up burning eventually.

Thank goodness the north is getting rain right now. We need it SOOOOO badly.
Also....that's purty! I find it odd how beautiful I often find the destructive forces of nature.

If we don't get any water the whole state may end up burning eventually.

Raining this morning!! Been looking at that cloud formation for over a week now.

*doublepromote *quality

Boosting this quality contribution up in the Hot Listing - declared quality by oritteropo.

Double-Promoting this video back to the front page; last published Wednesday, September 24th, 2014 11:08am PDT - doublepromote requested by oritteropo.

Retroboy says...

I wouldn't particularly call this "spectacularly violent". If you show just about any cumulus congestus cloud formation as it moves into cumulonimbus formation in timelapse, it looks like a whole lot of shit going on well before there's any rain or lightning.

Here's a random example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCD0ZF6Cmw0

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