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Fire created thunder and lightening

Scientists flew through the clouds created by the Williams Flats Fire last week to study the first incidence of a "pyrocumulonimbus" cloud in continental United States this year.

The flight was one of the first ever to record data from inside such a cloud.

A Seattle Times story about it is here: https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/environment/washington-wi...