Cloud Week: There are clouds made by fire called pyrocumulus

Cloud Week: There are clouds made by fire called pyrocumulus

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Right now. Time for Fact of the day. Day day
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
It's cloud week. Yeah, hear are fact of the day.

Speaker 3 (00:21):
If you see anat cloud today, take a photo of
it and send it to me. Grow up, tell me
what you think it looks like. It's just I was
just trying to get a bit of interaction. Yeah, with
the with the listeners, but back and forth.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
You want to deal with a thousand cloud photos and
go for it, that's cool.

Speaker 3 (00:39):
I will, and I'll forward them on to one News
and claim all that I took all of the photos. Yeah,
he's really dominating that weather, those weather picks.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
Well, today I want to tell you about pyro cumulus.
You know cumulus. It always says something, he's a fluffy one.

Speaker 3 (00:58):
Say no cloud it's made by fire, oh.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Like on fires? Probably not big enough, Okay.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Flammagenitus that's another name, flammagenitus cloud, also known as a pyrocumulus.

Speaker 3 (01:13):
Yeah, pyrocumulus flamogenitus pyro cumulominibus is another one. Okay, So
clouds there's a few wags clouds are formed.

Speaker 1 (01:22):
One of them is by at Earth's level.

Speaker 3 (01:25):
It gets hot and heat goes up and when it
goes up, but drags moisture with it.

Speaker 1 (01:29):
It gets up there turns into cloud yep.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
Now, when wildfires or volcanoes are erupting, such an intense
heat is released, it forms a rapid formation of clouds
known as pyrocumulus, and enough water vapor is available.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
So you think about and you.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Know you'll see more likely in the tropics where it's humid. Yeah,
the volcanoes erupted and above them there's a massive storm
cloud and lightning in this.

Speaker 1 (01:55):
Well, that is because that is a.

Speaker 3 (01:57):
Pyro cumulomnibus, because it drags enough water vapor weather up
well that it causes a cloud really quick.

Speaker 1 (02:06):
Yeah, it's got all that energy in it and then boom,
she's the thunder.

Speaker 3 (02:09):
And that's why you often see thunderstorms over volcanoes.

Speaker 1 (02:12):
Because of the difference in temperature, because of.

Speaker 3 (02:14):
The hyper temperature of it. Just like shooting it straight
straight up. Pyro cumulus. That's cool, and that's why.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
It's so like textured. Yeah, pyrocumulus.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, because it's the heat shooting it up
real quickly, and wildfires as well. But obviously your average
wildfire is happening in a very dry, arid years. They
wouldn't be moisture, not enough moisture. But there are situations
where a wildfire can happen.

Speaker 1 (02:41):
And then if it was by the coast and there
was ocean, would it have the heat?

Speaker 3 (02:47):
Yeah, cause because I guess the heat goes up, would
drag the ocean humidity over it. Hmmm, I would put
it so amazing.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Clouds are not the kind of clouds want to be
near enough to see and photos of them in any
situation you have seen your photos to because I love clouds,
the love of clouds.

Speaker 1 (03:06):
This is a problem with doing a week streak.

Speaker 3 (03:08):
In fact of the day I have these like week
long hyperfixations on things. Yeah, like yesterday when I was
mowing the lawns and I was looking at the clouds
and I was.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
Like, I wonder what one you are? Yeah? What formed you?
How long are you going to be around tomorrow?

Speaker 3 (03:23):
No, I'm not even going to tease it because people
will google it and find their own answers.

Speaker 1 (03:26):
Okay, okay, and then it won't be as much self
filtered into it doesn't.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
He's passionate about his fects of the day. So today's
fact of the day are there are clouds made by
fire and extreme heat, and they got a cool name.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
It's pyro cumulus.

Speaker 2 (03:41):
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