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Western wildfires are spinning off tornadoes – here’s how fires create their own freakish weather

  • Written by Charles Jones, Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of California, Santa Barbara
Western wildfires are spinning off tornadoes – here’s how fires create their own freakish weatherExtreme wildfires can fuel tornadoes, creating erratic and dangerous conditions for firefighters.David McNew/Getty Images

It might sound like a bad movie, but extreme wildfires can create their own weather – including fire tornadoes.

It happened in California as a heat wave helped to fuel hundreds of wildfires across the region, many of them...

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