Figure 3. This impressive fire whirl developed in California’s Polo Fire on March 7, 1961. “It was interesting on several counts,” said fire expert Stephen Pyne (Arizona State University).

Dixie fire generates fire whirl, pyrocumulonimbus cloud at 40,000 feet. Flames leap from trees as the Dixie fire jumps Highway 89 north of Greenville in Plumas County.

Main structure and flow structure of 'blue whirl' flame revealed through supercomputer simulations. Flame simulations entailed four million CPU hours. Further research on blue whirls might help ...

Main structure and flow structure of 'blue whirl' flame revealed through supercomputer simulations. Flame simulations entailed four million CPU hours distributed over the Deepthought2 system from ...

Engineers at the University of Maryland in College Park ignited a tiny fire whirl and were able to transform it into a new, nearly soot-free kind of blaze. Search for: Science. Archaeology; ...

Fire whirls were also noted after the bombings of Hamburg and Dresden, Germany in World War II, the Library of Congress said, and in California's 2018 Carr Fire. It reportedly took a fire whirl ...

A fire whirl during the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 threw burning planks of wood more than 600 yards ahead of the main blaze, aiding the fire’s spread. In Wisconsin, ...

The blue whirl flame We may be one step closer to solving the mystery of the blue whirl flame – a soot-free flame that consumes all the fuel it encounters. The elusive phenomenon was first ...

Here is a video of a fire whirl from the #TennantFire on June 29th. After a survey from the IMET, this was likely the rotation our radar was picking up on the 29th. Credit to the US Forest Service ...

Video shared by the National Weather Service shows a massive “fire whirl,” or fire tornado during Northern California’s Tennant Fire.