A severe wildfire in France became intense enough to generate a pyrocumulonimbus cloud, lightning generated from that storm ignited new fires outside the original burn area

A wildfire in southwest France grew so powerful that its smoke column became a thunderstorm, generating lightning that struck the ground and ignited new fires beyond the original…

The Gironde wildfire in Francehas developed what officials have said is a self-sustaining lightning-laden pyrocumulonimbus, a type of cumulonimbus cloud that forms above a source…