Fast-moving wildfires produce pyrocumulonimbus clouds over South Korea

2.5-minute JMA Himawari-9 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed the formation of 3 pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds that were spawned by a wildfire complex in the eastern part of South Korea on 25 March 2025. The pyroCbs exhibited cloud-top 10.4... Read More