The photos in CBC's article really do a terrible job of conveying the scale and terrifying beauty of pyrocumulus clouds. On June 29th, I watched a pyrocumulus c

The photos in CBC's article really do a terrible job of conveying the scale and terrifying beauty of pyrocumulus clouds. On June 29th, I watched a pyrocumulus cloud [0] from the Sparks Lake fire [0] about 20-25 km from where I was. It reached over the horizon shaped like a "thunderhead" or a mushroom cloud. I was in awe. One could see the shadow that it cast in the sky; the darkness gave an impression of the cloud being dense with ash. The scale of it was huge, even though the fire was just 2 days old at that point. [0] : https://i.imgur.com/C5bwGeQ.jpg https://i.imgur.com/C5bwGeQ.jpg [1] : http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/OneFire.asp?ID=811 http://bcfireinfo.for.gov.bc.ca/hprScripts/WildfireNews/OneF...