Photographer Jesse Rockwell was able to capture a stunning timelapse of a pyrocumulus cloud forming over the Rey Fire near Santa Barbara, Calif., on Saturday, August 20. According to the American ...
The huge, billowing blackish-gray cloud, also known as a fire cloud or Flammagenitus cloud stretched up almost 30,000 feet high, although they usually only get to about 5.0 miles (26,000 feet). And ...