Newsletter www.wired.com The West’s infernos are melting our sense of how fire works 42,000-foot plumes of ash. 143-mph firenadoes. 1,500-degree heat. These wildfires are a new kind of hell on earth, and scientists are racing to learn its rules.
Impacts www.nytimes.com Fire tornadoes reported in Northern California The National Weather Service issued an unusual warning on Saturday about the possibility of “a fire-induced tornado.”
www.washingtonpost.com California’s Carr Fire may have unleashed the most intense fire tornado ever observed in the U.S. The Carr Fire unleashed a fiery vortex with winds of at least 143 mph, the equivalent of an EF3 tornado.
