Daily Star's biggest headlines straight to your inbox!'Fire thunderstorms', which occur during bushfires creating a huge cloud of smoke and ash high in the sky, may be powerful enough to change the climate, scientists have warned.During Australia's devastating summer of fires in 2019 and 2020, a 'super-outbreak' of fire thunderstorms, also known as 'pyroCb events', released the same amount of energy as 2,000 Hiroshima-sized nuclear weapons, ABC reports.
Rick McRae, co-author of the study that found these explosive findings, said: "The energy released was just vast."It doesn't matter what units you use, they're big numbers, far bigger than we're used to handling."A fire thunderstorm begins when a bushfire becomes so severe that it changes.
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