The country’s next presidential election is more ominous in the glow of its latest environmental disaster.

French President Emmanuel Macron said France was "facing a completely unprecedented fire," describing the situation as France's worst fire-related crisis since World War II.

Known as “fire clouds”, the ominous-looking thunderstorms are created by extreme wildfires and can exacerbate already extremely dangerous conditions.

France's wildfires have generated powerful fire clouds, creating new threats. These pyrocumulonimbus clouds produce their own winds and lightning, complicating firefighting…