NASA Aircraft Flies High over B.C. Wildfires to Study Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds
The flight gathered data on pyrocumulonimbus storms that can trigger lightning, rain and fire tornadoes, as B.C. faces more than 100 wildfires.
- On Saturday, a NASA ER-2 Earth Resources aircraft flew over British Columbia's southern Interior, conducting over a dozen passes at 60,000 feet to study weather phenomena generated by massive wildfires near Great Falls, Mont.
- British Columbia is under a provincial state of emergency as over 100 wildfires burn, with the Pear Lake wildfire spanning nearly 1,500 square kilometres as the largest blaze affecting the Interior.
- Late Friday, the District of Summerland ordered all 12,000 residents to evacuate as the Bald Range wildfire advanced quickly; roughly 21,700 people are now displaced across the province with 9,700 on evacuation alert.
- Premier David Eby described conditions as "explosive," while Minister of Emergency Management and Climate Readiness Kelly Greene urged travelers to check conditions and Prime Minister Mark Carney said the federal government "stands ready to help."
- Scientists are mapping pyrocumulonimbus clouds, which NASA describes as "one of the least understood forms of severe weather on Earth," to help experts forecast dangerous storms that can spark new blazes.
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NASA Aircraft Flies High Over BC Wildfires to Study Pyrocumulonimbus Clouds
A high-altitude research aircraft from NASA flew over British Columbia’s wildfires over the weekend in a bid to better understand weather events generated by large blazes. Online aviation tracking shows the ER-2 plane flew back and forth over B.C.’s southern Interior more than a dozen times on Saturday on a flight of more than six hours that took off from Great Falls, Mont. Data from the Flightradar24 website shows the plane spent about four hou…
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NASA aircraft flies high over B.C. wildfires to study pyrocumulonimbus clouds
CLINTON, BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA - A high-altitude research aircraft from NASA flew over British Columbia's wildfires over the weekend in a bid to better understand weather events generated by large
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